Poverty forces Jill Mackie to work in a department store, and there she falls in love with its owner, Charles Hemingway. They form an illicit alliance when Mrs. Hemingway refuses to grant Charles a divorce. Eventually, Hemingway becomes ill and dies, leaving Jill a sum of money. She leaves the country, falls in love with a young man to whom she confides her past, but breaks with him when he suggests they make a similar arrangement.