Doctor Andrews, a dentist, is a widower, who feels that it is not well to live alone. His son John, a lively boy of fourteen, does not share this feeling. The doctor bestows his attentions on Mrs. Lucy Brown, a widow, who also has a son named John, of the same age and temperament as the doctor’s boy. The widow sends her boy to the doctor’s office, telling him to call that night and get his answer. While there, young Brown purloins a pair of forceps. Furthermore, when Andrews calls, and gets a favorable answer to his suit, the youngster enters, and makes fun of the lovers. But the dentist does not mind this, not knowing what is to come. After the wedding, Andrews takes his bride home, and a pleasant surprise awaits her, in the person of young John Andrews, of whom she knew nothing. The doctor laughingly says that the two boys will make pleasant companions, and at supper the boys promptly refute this, by getting into a fight, and having to be led to bed. The parents, of course, take the parts of their respective children. A few minutes of peace follow, but when John Andrews is soundly asleep, John Brown pulls one of his teeth, with the purloined forceps, and pandemonium follows. The bride leads her son to her room, the bridegroom leads his son to his room, and so their married life begins. The next morning the doctor’s boy is so obstreperous that he is given a letter to his school teacher, which will insure him a whipping. Young Andrews bribes young Brown to deliver the note, and naturally the latter receives the punishment. He returns home, tells his mother, she upbraids her husband, explanations are useless, and she leaves the house, accompanied by her son. Mrs. Andrews returns to her old home, from which her John goes forth, purchases a bag of candy, and proceeds to forget his troubles. But he is set upon by a number of boys who wish to share his candy, and is in dire straits when John Andrews happens along, and goes to his rescue. Together they vanquish the enemy, and then swear eternal friendship. The boys now visit the lonely bride, and explain their friendly relations. Thence they go to the lonely bridegroom, with more explanations, and induce him to go to his wife. A reconciliation follows, with great hope for the future, cemented by the new-found loyalty of the boys.