Plot

Peggy, a rambunctious young American girl, goes to Scotland to visit her uncle. Her American ways both shock and eventually delight the people of the old village--especially the handsome young minister.

Peggy Cameron, a New York high-society favorite, must suddenly move to the moors when her uncle and guardian, Andrew Cameron, insists that she come live with him in Scotland. Despite the gloomy surroundings, Peggy does her best to maintain her New York lifestyle; her fast driving and men's clothing dismay straitlaced Andrew and the other villagers. Then Peggy shows her serious side when she comes to the aid of an unmarried expectant mother who has been made a social outcast. From this, Peggy wins the villagers' grudging respect. Finally, the Reverend Donald Bruce, who has fallen in love with her, persuades her to stay in Scotland and marry him after Andrew, ironically, has agreed to let her return to the United States.—Larry Smith

The scene is a spacious estate near New York City. Peggy, a girl of Scotch ancestry who has absorbed the vivacious American temperament during the years she has spent there, is summoned back to Scotland by her uncle and guardian. She goes under protest, taking with her a maid and her racing motorcar. Woodkirk is at church when Andrew Cameron receives a telegram that she is motoring from Glasgow and will arrive on Sunday. He is amazed. Why should she travel on Sunday? Before the question can be answered the unusual sound of the approaching automobile is heard. Peggy enters the village at full speed. The quiet and pious Scots are upset in body and spirit as they pick themselves from the ground where the speed of the passing car had thrown them. There ensues a succession of comedy scenes showing Peggy in conflict with the sour Scots. She tells the children fairy tales, drives her car at breakneck speed, dresses in her cousin Colin's, clothes and scares the village drunkard out of his wits by replacing his full glass with empty ones, outrages the devotion of the minister, and generally disturbs the community. But when the weaver's lass is called before a tribunal of the deacons of the church to answer for her misdeeds, she displays for the first time a trace of womanhood. She finds that Colin is responsible for the girl's predicament, and when he lacks courage to confess his guilt, the deacons, of whom his father is the head, Peggy breaks into their proceedings and tells the truth. The result is that Andrew Cameron consents to the marriage of Colin and Janet and is properly humbled by the assault on his pride. Peggy then announces her intention of returning to America. The Rev. Donald Bruce hears of it, comes from the parsonage on the run and at length persuades her to stay.—Moving Picture World synopsis