Nell's fudge making was the talk of the countryside. She was called the candy girl by the youngsters. Sweetness was one of the chief characteristics of the sunny-hearted girl. Speaking to her aunt, Nell exclaimed, "We are going to New York and I am going to make candy for everyone there, and were going to be rich." The following week found her established in New York, the proud possessor of a little store not far from the Great White Way. Two men enter Nell's life, one a musician, and the other Jack Moore, the idle son of a millionaire. Inducing the musicians to play ragtime instead of operatic compositions, Nell leads them to the road of success, while Jack for the first time experiences impulses of goodness. Aspiring to win Nell's favor, Jack tries to make good. Listening to his pleadings, Nell married Jack, whose father was opposed to his marriage. He tells her that for several years Jack has been addicted to the drug habit. All efforts to save him have been useless. Stunned, Nell listened silently until the father offered to secure an annulment of the marriage. Refusing the offer, Nell rushes to Jack and throwing her arms about him, she says, "We'll return to my little country home and there we'll wage this fight together."
—Moving Picture World synopsis