Frank Melbourne, a society chap, has a quarrel with his sweetheart, Dorothy, and out of spite becomes engaged, to Amy Carrington. The night before he is to be married, he injures his friend, Courtland, in a friendly wrestling bout. It comes out in the newspapers that Courtland was killed, and Amy refuses to marry him until he is cleared. At Amy's home Frank meets Dorothy, the only girl he ever loved. She accompanies him to the steamer, he having decided to go to Europe. She lingers too long on the boat and is carried, to sea. Frank begs her to marry him as soon as they reach Paris. She consents, and when they return to New York they find Courtland waiting for them. The news of his death was caused by a bungling nurse, and the article was corrected in a later edition.