Mrs. Harry Hawkins has the ill fortune to drop her chain purse on the street and the still greater misfortune to have it picked up by Cyril Percy, who returns it to her in a most gushing manner. After she has thanked him and turned to walk away, he gazes at her receding form, enraptured by her appearance and straight-way follows her. When she reaches her home, he again accosts her, but she escapes him by running into the house and slamming the door in his face. Cyril, however, belongs to the persistent and irrepressible order of mashers, and so running around the house and climbing up onto a snowbank, he peers into a window, and seeing her inside telling her trouble to Molly, the maid, he raises the window and entering the room, rushes to her side and declares his undying affection for her. She beats a hasty retreat, ordering Molly to show him the door. He is not at all discouraged by his reception, but handing Molly a liberal tip, begs her to secrete him somewhere until he has the opportunity of meeting his inamorata again. Molly puts him in a large closet and then, looking out of the window, sees her sweetheart, Mike Dugan, a second-rate heavyweight prize fighter. She invites him in and explains the situation to him and asks him to throw the unwelcome visitor out of the house. Before, however, she can tell him where Cyril is concealed, she is called from the room. Then Harry Hawkins, the husband, who has been away on a trip, arrives home and as he answers to the description of Cyril, Mike "gets busy" and with a mighty lift, shoots Hawkins through the window onto the snowbank. Mrs. Hawkins and Molly then enter and Mike tells them that he has done what he was requested to do. Mrs. Hawking is delighted and thanking him heartily, she rewards him by giving him a bill of a large denomination. The three of them leave the room. Poor Hawkins has by this time gathered himself together and returned to the house, where he meets Cyril, who has come from the closet. Cyril is busy explaining that he has called on business, when Mike re-enters the room, and while Cyril again returns to his closet, seizes Hawkins and once more fires him from the window. Hawkins is again entering the front door when he meets the expressman with his trunk and quickly unpacking it, he gets into it and orders the man to deliver him inside. His orders are obeyed and he once more finds himself back in the room. As he starts to raise the lid, he hears someone coming and lets it fall back into place. Mrs. Hawkins, Molly and Mike are entering the room just as the lid falls and thinking the ubiquitous Cyril is concealed in the trunk, Mike picks it up and hurls it from the window and Hawkins again lands on the snowbank. Then Mike recalls the expressman and orders him to take the trunk away. Hawkins falls through the bottom of the trunk and again braves the front door. No sooner does Mike see him than he seizes him and is proceeding to shake the life out of him, when Mrs. Hawkins rushes to the rescue and explains matters. Then Cyril, the unsuppressible, peers curiously and cautiously from his hiding place and, well, he also goes flying through the window, propelled by the united efforts of Mike and Hawkins, and peace at last spreads her wings over the home of the Hawkinses.