Father and Mother Lennox are a contented old couple, until daughter Jane comes home from college imbued with a passion for hygiene and an unswerving sense of duty toward them. With a book, "Old People and Their Care" as her guide, she puts them through a course of exercising "sprouts," orders hygienic meals, throws wide the windows to cold winds, and upsets their well-ordered comfort. After a period of submission they run away. Jane is almost distracted. Hoping for their return, she restores the house to its former old-fashioned comfort. Meanwhile, her parents rent a bungalow on the border of a large estate. Billy Harrison, the owner, drops in to see if he can be of service. In his rough outing clothes he is taken for the hired man by the old couple, who give him a dollar and set him doing the chores. He good naturedly lets them lord it over him and becomes a great favorite. Jane, learning of their whereabouts, arrives at the bungalow just as father Lennox returning from a hunting trip with Billy, shows his bagging of game. He and Mother Lennox are very happy over the event, but Jane's appearance dampens their spirits. Billy conspires with them to punish Jane by a siege of snubbing. With a maternal heartache, Mother Lennox is persuaded to ignore Jane, and both refuse to return home. Billy is resentful of Jane's treatment of her parents, and Jane is jealous of the hired man's influence over them. Later his ire changes to pity when he sees that their snubbing has made her cry. Thoughts of her begin to fill his own lonely life. Anxious to atone and longing for her parent's love again, Jane resolves to buy the little bungalow with her small inheritance. To this end she seeks the owner, and is amazed to find that Billy is host at the ranch house, and not merely a hired man. He listens to her plan, but refuses to sell the bungalow unless Jane will take the job of bossing him. Thinking him sarcastic, she leaves angrily. He follows and pleads his cause. Through binoculars Billy's guests on the terrace see Jane's antagonism to kissing vanish with her surrender.