When rich civil engineer Robert Penfield goes to a small Quaker town in Pennsylvania to supervise a job, he meets Patience, who soon falls in love with him, but Robert is engaged to Edith, who plans to marry him for his money only. To remain close to Robert, Patience returns with him to the city to take a job as his mother's secretary.

Louise Huff
as Patience

John Bowers
as Robert Penfield

Lottie Pickford
as Edith Penfield

Kate Lester
as Mrs. Penfield

Adolphe Menjou
as Paul Dunstan

Gertrude Norman
as Mother Osborn