Mr. Wygate, a wealthy businessman, is rising in social circles and decides his daughter Geraldine must become more refined and so hires Eddie Able to educate her. Eddie soon falls in love with her, but she has eyes only for a well-known lawyer and young man-about-town, Bellsworth Cameron, who has shown little interest in her. Suffering through his unrequited love, Eddie works to make Geraldine the ideal society lady, and to capture the interest of Cameron. Eventually Cameron starts seeing her but his true colors are shown when Geraldine is arrested in a speakeasy, and Eddie rescues her.