When Nora Nolan, a poor bargain-basement clerk, faints from the heat, she is told to take a vacation. Reporter Jimmie Norton, the son of a millionaire, witnesses the incident and sends her an anonymous $200 check. Nora stays at a fashionable seaside hotel, where Jimmie happens to be pitching for the hotel baseball team after he is fired from the newspaper. Jimmie is called home just as Nora is accused of looting the bath houses. After she catches Emily Westervelt-Moore, a society girl who covets Jimmie, planting evidence in her room, Nora's money is stolen and she is forced to wash dishes to pay her bill. When she overhears a plan to rob the hotel safe, Nora catches the real thief, Lloyd Gregory, shortly after Jimmie and his father arrive. The elder Norton expresses his approval of Nora as she and Jimmie embrace in "the final close-up."