Wilkins loses his pay envelope. He comes home, and his wife, who is a shrew, refuses to believe him. She refuses to give him anything to eat and orders him from the house. Wilkins, disconsolate goes to the home of two of his friends, who are actors, out of work. They suggest a scheme whereby they can all get a meal. The actors get out their trunks and one dresses as a woman, and the other as a prosperous gentleman, and give Wilkins a high hat. They then go to a restaurant and have their fill. The proprietor judges that his patrons are prosperous and never imagines that his bill will not be paid. However, they ask him for their check, the actor who is masquerading as a millionaire pretends to faint, and the proprietor goes out to have a policeman call an ambulance. The plot is to run out while the restaurateur is calling help. However, Wilkins’ wife sees her husband with a supposed woman. She rushes in and immediately starts breaking things up. She tears the actor’s hat off together with his wig and then takes Wilkins home, there to treat with him more dispatch. The proprietor returns with an officer and the two actors are arrested, being unable to make the damage good.