Henry Peck is married to a woman who maps out his daily walks through life exactly in accordance with her notions. It happens that the dawn of a new day finds their Chinese cook deeply saturated with gin and the butler still slumbering as usual. After giving Henry a dime with which to buy coffee and doughnuts, that he might not go to his office hungry Wifie settles her troubles with the belated butler and the hilarious cook to her own satisfaction. On his way to the office, Henry meets fascinating Sue, a maid of wits who cannot sport a dime for breakfast. She sees an opportunity to secure one through Henry. She plants herself beside Henry at the café table, eats heartily and then leaves, while Henry finds the two checks at his own plate. He is under the necessity of making an undignified get-away. Reaching the office Henry receives a wire from a rich uncle saying that he is coming to pay a visit and expressing a desire to meet his wife. When uncle arrives that afternoon, he finds fascinating Sue with Henry and mistakes her tor Henry's wife. Sue, ripe for any proposition that will gain her a supper, carries her part along. On returning home there is compromising situations and laughable incidents it all ends with the uncle marrying Sue himself and giving a fat piece of money to his nephew, Henry.