Madge and Willie are children of parents who shine in society circles, and are quite precocious. Their parents give a recherché dinner to which their select friends are invited. The children are taken by their nurse to dine in their playroom, and are given a cereal to start, a very frugal meal. Madge resents the slight and steals down stairs and gets a glimpse of the dining table, fairly groaning under its weight of delicacies. Returning to the nursery, the children talk it over and decide to go out and dine at a restaurant. They have no well-defined plan, but resolve to submit to chance. To think is to act and, while Madge arrays herself in her mother’s finery, Willie goes stealthily downstairs and appropriates a costume from the hall rack. Thus arrayed they go out unnoticed and hail a taxicab, give directions to the driver through the tube, and are whirled away to a swell café. Their entry causes some surprise, but the obsequious waiters are all attention and the children order liberally. In the meantime, the nurse and butler have abstracted a bottle of wine and some pastry, and are having a surreptitious feast. The children are missed, and a search is instituted. A trip through the house reveals the disorder in the room of the mother and there is general consternation. That the children have been kidnapped by the robbers there is no doubt, and an officer is summoned. When the waiter presents his check, Madge gives him one of her mother’s visiting cards and the waiter telephones to the house. The agonized parents and their guests rush to the café, accompanied by the officers and find the missing children just finishing their dinner. The mystery is explained, a happy culmination to the pranks of the children.