Against the vehement demands of her brother, a farm girl falls in love with a visitor from the city. When he is called away on business, the brother leads her to believe he has abandoned her. Finding herself pregnant, she reluctantly agrees to marry an old man from a nearby farm. Hearing of the marriage sometime later, her beau feels betrayed, yet unaware that she has fled the marriage, her elderly husband having died in the pursuit. A year later, the true lovers meet again in the city.