Mary Ann is a simple country girl, and has ambitions that a farm does not furnish. She hopes to go to the Seminary, but her crusty old father, Ephraim Hardy, thinks it too costly, and her mother does not see any good in such schools anyhow. One day good news comes to her. A wealthy uncle in San Francisco writes he wants his niece educated in a fashionable Coast seminary, and encloses his check to cover the expenses. At this Mary Ann’s delight is pathetic She packs up all her belongings and arrayed in her old-fashioned clothes, goes tremblingly away on her great adventure, she is a very quaint and funny feature at the school; the girls laugh at her and she finds herself isolated. Finally one of the proudest and most popular girls, strong and sympathetic, determines to relieve Mary Ann of her misery and “bring her out.” She borrows some gowns from other girls, arrays her in proper fashion, and instructs her in matters of etiquette, enlisting the aid of one of the young men who frequents the seminary sociables. Mary Ann falls in love with this young man (Robert Jackson) and he reciprocates her affection, but she cannot bear the thought of his knowing from what lowly people she has sprung. When she leaves school at the spring vacation for home she does not give him her address or further encouragement. Fate has ordained it otherwise, for although Mary had her brief flight of joyous ambition, she returns to the duty of driving cows and washing dishes. Eventually, through an automobile mishap, the dapper young fellow finds her at work, so he claims her for his own, in spite of her seedy old father and her countrified mother.