Horatio Gillingwater has a nagging wife, Evalina, and a boss, Jonathan Ramp, who takes advantage of him. When Ramp sends Horatio to the bank to deposit some bonds, he is robbed. Blaming Horatio, Ramp explains that he will have to pay back the amount of the bonds. Because of the robbery, Horatio is late getting home and, as she habitually does, Evalina angrily compares him to the man she should have married, Harold McCauley. Horatio's only defender is his daughter Lois, who is in love with Jerry Wayne, a man her mother does not like. After dinner, Evalina and Lois's sister Alice leave Horatio behind to wash the dishes while they go to the movies. Lois stays behind also, pleading a cold, so she can spend the evening with Jerry, who brings a bottle with him as an offering for Horatio. Under the influence of the alcohol, Horatio is persuaded to attend a lodge meeting with his friend Jake Buckley. The bank robbers are also at the meeting, hiding from the police, and slip the bonds into Horatio's coat pocket. Horatio, who is very drunk, fights with Ramp who fires him. Horatio and Jake then return home to find that Lois and Jerry are engaged. Taking advantage of Evalina's absence, Jerry sends for deaf Justice Felton, who Horatio thinks at first has come to arrest him for attacking Ramp. The wedding is completed just before Evalina and Alice return from the movies. She starts nagging immediately, then the police arrive to arrest Horatio and, finding the bonds, take him to jail. Faced with his loss, Evalina realizes that Horatio is really a good man. The robbers, having followed Horatio, break in to retrieve the stolen bonds and Evalina is embarrassed when she recognizes one of them, Mugsey O'Bannion, as her old boyfriend Harold McCauley. Jerry manages to capture the robbers and receives the reward for their capture. Jake testifies that he witnessed the crooks slipping the bonds into Horatio's jacket, and Jerry uses the false arrest to force Ramp to make Horatio a partner. Jerry and Lois leave for their honeymoon and Horatio, taking charge of his family, listens to a chastened Evalina apologize for her nagging.