At the urging of his dying aunt, a young man of limited means forgoes marriage into comfortable society. He becomes husband to an unwed mother and father to a child. Their meager existence is threatened, however, when the woman he left at the altar reenters his life.

Marie ha tenido un hijo de George Vandeau, pero éste ha decidido casarse con Kitty. La tía agonizante de George le obliga a una promesa que termina con él conviviendo con Marie en los alpes europeos. Pero Kitty no se resigna a perder a su ex-prometido...