An impoverished lord goes after an invalid's money only to fall in love.

Heiress Dorothy Adams disguises her identity while traveling in England with her father and falls in love with Paul Menford, an impoverished nobleman who poses as a doctor in order to meet Dorothy. Unknown to Paul, Mr. Adams buys the Menford estate, and Dorothy is there alone on the same night that Paul, inebriated, also decides to sleep there. They encounter each other in the morning and are discovered by a friend of Paul's, to whom Paul introduces Dorothy as his wife. When the news spreads, they decide to actually marry, but Dorothy changes her mind when she overhears Paul discussing with Joe Diamond his promise to pay the agent a sum upon marrying the Adams heiress. Dorothy's father realizes that Paul was ignorant of Dorothy's identity and successfully contrives to reunite the pair.