A country girl follows the man who jilted her to the big city, where she finds two new suitors.
Popular New York writer Malcolm Niles looks forward to a romantic evening with actress Vivian Herford until her mother shows up and talks about wedding plans. Hoping to avoid marriage to Vivian, Malcolm decides to go on the cross-country autographing tour that his friend and publisher Robert Hanson has been suggesting. While signing books in a small Southern town, Malcolm meets Nancy Briggs, who expresses complete disinterest in his books and plans to marry her sweetheart, George Wilkins, Jr., that evening. Discarding thoughts about Nancy, whom he regards as eccentric, Malcolm is ecstatic when Robert wires him that Vivian has just left New York. Boarding his train to return home, though, Malcolm discovers that Nancy, too, is on board. George, who has been working as the manager of a dry cleaning shop in New York for some time, has failed to show up for their wedding and Nancy plans to find him. Despite Malcolm's efforts to avoid Nancy, he misses his train on its last stop looking for her gloves, then finds her at his door in New York. Because Nancy has discovered that George is not the manager of his shop and has, in fact, disappeared, she has nowhere to go but to Malcolm, from whom she wants help in locating her fiancé. He is at first inclined to throw her out, but when Vivian shows up, he tells her that he has found another woman, Nancy. Staying with Malcolm on a platonic basis, Nancy gradually becomes an important part of his and Robert's lives. She cooks and cleans for them and soon becomes a person to whom everyone in their otherwise hardened New York neighborhood can turn. While at first Nancy's unsophisticated ways chagrin Malcolm, he starts to fall in love with her, as does Robert, and is ready to kill his friend when Robert "sleepwalks" into her room. Despite the diagnosis of their old college roommate, psychiatrist Dr. Alonzo Z. Stewart, that Malcolm is in love with Nancy, he continually denies it until Robert sends for Nancy's family and the contrast between his socialite parents and her unsophisticated relatives causes arguments among everyone present. When George shows up just then to reclaim Nancy and starts a fight, Malcolm finally admits he loves her and proposes. After their wedding, Nancy and Malcolm board a steamship for Europe, but when she suddenly thinks she has left her gloves ashore, Malcolm races down to get them and can't get back in time before it pulls away from the dock.
