Miriam Wilkins, teen-age daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of the Senator, elects him to the position of honorary president. After a new gardener, Baxter, turns out to be a notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, and is about to be fired, his daughter points out it would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on her society. Further complications arise involving a fuss-budget banker, Albert, a former suitor of Miriam's older married sister, plus some domestic misunderstandings between Baxter and his wife, and the older sister and her husband.