Jack Brant proposes to Nell Denton at a dinner dance. Nell loves Jack, but she is ambitious and wants to marry Count Cassiner. At the table the two rivals get places beside Nell. The Count’s pumps are tight and they hurt his feet so that he cannot smile upon his lady love. He slips them off. Nell’s slippers are none too comfortable and she too slips them off. By accident these are kicked where Jack gets them. He senses the situation and kicks the slippers under his own chair. At the end of the dinner Nell fishes for her slippers and is horrified when her feet slips into the Count’s pumps. The Count, reaching for his pumps, accidentally presses Nell’s foot. She thinks he did it on purpose and turns to Jack. Jack whispers that he will give Nell her slippers if she will take his engagement ring along with it. She tells him he is a brute, so Jack talks to the lady on his other side and Nell has to kick him under the table in sign of capitulation. She takes the ring and gets her slippers back. The Count, discovering his loss, frowns upon fate and tears passions to tatters in his frantic gesticulations.