Patrick Casey is convicted of burglarizing the safe of the office which he watches nights, and is sentenced to twenty years in prison at the testimony of Bemis, the junior member of the robbed firm, who is the real thief. Bonnie, his wife, promises that she will remain unchanged until he is released. Ten years pass. Alice is about to be graduated from college, Michael is about to enter the bar, and Joe and Josephine, the younger children, are in school. Astor, the son of Bemis, has also grown up. He meets Alice in school, and falls in love with her. On commencement day, Astor and his mother go with Alice and Michael to call on Bonnie. The old-fashioned ways of Patrick's wife and the unpretentiousness of the little home do not appeal to the proud mother of Astor, and Alice, made unhappy by her attitude, gives Astor up. When the elder Bemis confesses on his deathbed, however, the guilt which he has had on his conscience these many years, Alice and Astor are reconciled, and Patrick is freed to come home to Bonnie and his grownup bairns.
—Moving Picture World synopsis