When Elmer Harmon goes to Paris to sign a contract
with the French government, he meets Cleo, a dancer with whom he
falls in love and who is instrumental in acquiring the contract for
him. They are married, and Elmer takes his bride back to his
home town in Pennsylvania where the natives are shocked by Cleo's
manners and her Parisian attire.
In New York, Elmer exhausts his finances, forges his
uncle's name to a check, and is arrested. Cleo, in an effort
to raise money for her husband's bail, accepts a theatrical
engagement, but Elmer misunderstands her association with an old
friend and denounces her, returning to Harmontown.
Later, he learns the truth and returns to ask her
forgiveness.