A pretty little Quakeress named Patience Prim is helped to cross a stream by a diamond drummer, who happens to be near. The world-wise drummer insists upon accompanying Patience to her home. The drummer invites himself to call upon Patience, and makes his visit while the Quakers are having family meditations. He insists upon talking to Patience while she should be meditating upon her soul’s welfare, which results in the Quakers all leaving the room and taking Patience with them. The drummer makes up his mind to win the little Quakeress, and succeeds in getting the town constable to aid him in a plan to kidnap the whole Quaker family. The constable waits outside of the house while the drummer enters and, taking his sample case out of his pocket, calls the Prim family around him, showing them the jewelry and diamonds. They are shocked by the display of worldliness and sin represented by the jewels, but are held spellbound by the salesman’s tongue. The salesman succeeds in depositing a jewel on the person of each member of the family without their knowledge and, calling the constable, has them searched and placed under arrest. In single file, the stern father, the fat old mother, the prim old maid aunt, the sanctimonious brother and pretty little Patience are marched out and placed in a large furniture van. The long trip over rough country roads to the station house has many interruptions, and finally ends at the minister’s, where Patience is presented to the drummer as a peace offering.