Sadie is unable to tolerate life in the city, leaves her husband, Max Barker, and with her baby, goes back to the village where she was born. Then, afraid to tell her father that she plans to raise a baby without a father, she pretends that she is still childless, and asks Lucy White to take care of the infant for a few months. Lucy quickly agrees, and hoping to preserve Sadie's secret, she claims that the child is really her own, and even conceals the truth from her sweetheart, Dave Allen. Risking the condemnation of the community, which has already ostracized Lucy for having a baby out of wedlock, Dave decides to stand by his sweetheart. He then marries her after Max and Sadie are reunited and take back their child.