Grace Preston is a girl who has many admirers. Her father has plenty of money and gives her everything she desires. Grace is in love with Charles Dewhurst, a suave individual who looks upon the marriage with Grace as a convenience; but later when he hears that Mr. Preston has lost his fortune, he breaks the engagement. Grace’s pride is injured and not told by her father that she is no longer an heiress, she decides to marry George Kenyon, her father’s secretary, to spite the man who jilted her. Kenyon is not a wealthy man, but he loves Grace for her own sake. He knows that she is no longer a girl with a “dough-bag.” After the marriage Grace is very cold to her husband, because she feels that he married her for her money. When she learns the truth about her fortune she then realizes what a fool she has been. She is about to plead for forgiveness and finds him talking confidentially to another woman. Grace thinks he is making love to her, but in reality he is telling the woman, who is an old friend, his troubles. “Oh! I have nothing to live for,” says Grace in despair. She plans suicide, but her husband again demonstrates his love.