Martin Rankin is in love with his stenographer, Phyllis Dunbar, but she is engaged to Bobbie Warner, a dancer. Phyllis' sister Inah learns that she is pregnant, and after her lover Billy abandons her, Inah attempts suicide. Phyllis asks Bobbie for enough money to send Inah away quietly and after he refuses, she appeals to Martin, offering to marry him in exchange for the money. Martin marries her but insists that they live together merely as friends until she learns to love him. Later Phyllis asks her husband for permission to visit Bobbie, but when she realizes that the young man spends much of his time drinking and philandering, she returns to the husband whom she has come to love. Ashamed of his behavior, Billy returns to Inah and marries her.