Richard is in love with Helen, but her mother wishes her to marry a society leader, Richard's father having made his money as a soap manufacturer. A trip abroad is arranged, and Helen arranges to meet Richard and have him drive her to the station. Richard is downcast, saying the ten minutes time that will be spent in this trip is too short to arrange an affair of a lifetime. His aunt gives him his mother's wedding ring as a talisman. En route to the train an unprecedented traffic blockade occurs. Helen, of course, misses the train, and Richard wins her hand. Auntie says it is the ring that is responsible; father only smiles, but it develops that he has paid one of his men to bribe street car motormen, truckmen, and taxicab drivers to bring about the traffic tie-up.