Laurie does not realize that she is about twelve years beyond the kittenish stage of her life, but she can’t help noticing that she weighs 185 pounds and has a foot more waist than usually is found on the sweet young thing she wants to be. Some of the girls tell her that they keep in trim at the gymnasium, and to the gymnasium Laurie goes to put through a heroic course of sprouts. She doesn’t like the gymnasium, but she likes the handsome instructor and she slicks to the exercise until she gets a black eye trying to box. To comfort her the instructor puts her on the scales to show her how much weight she has lost. She has gained another five pounds. This is the final straw. The instructor seeks to comfort her and she accepts it as a proposal of marriage, and accepts him too. He accepts her when he finds that she has money, and so the gymnasium course brings a husband to Laurie, though not in the way she had expected it would.