Archie, a man well past the age of forty-five proposes to Mildred, a young and pretty girl and is rejected. Fred, her youthful lover then enters and does the same thing and is accepted. As Fred leaves the house, it is very windy and a young lady passing by gets some dust in her eyes. He tries to assist and from Mildred's window it appears that he is embracing he young lady. Mildred's temper quickly rises, and she writes to Fred, calling off their engagement. She then telephones Archie, and they marry immediately. Arriving at Archie's home Mildred is dumbfounded to find that she has suddenly become the mother of six children. Fred becomes sick, and the tender sympathies of the nurse at the hospital so plays on his heart that he proposes marriage. After the ceremony, he goes to his bride's house and finds he has married a widow with seven children. One year elapses. Mildred is dressed in mourning; Fred is without a wife. They meet by accident one day and after explanations have straightened matters out, they decide to get married at once. After the marriage they find they have a family of thirteen children, but in the final scene they are both happy, as they send the thirteen off to school.