A rich young man is attached to his father’s stenographer. Knowing her character the father objects, disowning his son when he persists in big attentions to the girl. In the grip of poverty, the girl’s true nature is disclosed, and the gentleness and goodness of her sister is revealed. The insincere girl finally rejects her lover, who is aided by the good sister. Father and son are reconciled, the latter realizing that he had chosen the wrong sister. An embezzling clerk in the father’s employ finds favor with the fickle girl, and an elopement is arranged. Through an error, the elopers carry away a suitcase containing embroidering. The other case, containing the embezzled funds, is knowingly restored to the rightful owner by the sincere sister.