Shortly after their marriage, Norman Warriner and his wife, Lucy, quarrel over her friendship with Jimmy Kempster, resulting in an interlocutory decree of divorce to be granted within a year unless the couple become reconciled.  At a charity bazaar, Lucy dances with Dan Leeson, an oil magnate, who repeatedly proposes to her; and annoyed by her husband's dancing with another woman, Lucy absentmindedly accepts Dan's offer.

Finding herself the subject of scandalous gossip, Lucy urges Dan and his aunt to listen to her husband's story; he denies the truth of the rumors and exonerates her, then plans to leave for Europe.  Lucy breaks her engagement to Dan and is happily reunited with her husband when he learns that Kempster had only asked his wife for a kiss—which she had refused him.

Notes
The film is based on the play The Awful Truth by Arthur Richman (New York, September 18, 1922).