High-spirited Vera Middleton causes her conventional parents much anxiety, so they decide to marry her to Spencer Jardine, a man who is greatly desirous of her money. When, during a weekend at her friend Grace Maynard's seaside bungalow, Vera becomes involved in a fling with Grace's nephew Arthur Tavener, scandalized neighbors notify her parents. When she returns home, Jardine urges her to marry him in order to save her reputation. Vera refuses, indignantly returns to the seaside and proceeds to vamp Arthur in revenge for his kissing her. When he pledges his love, Vera repulses him until her parents insist upon her marriage to Jardine, at which time Vera embraces Arthur and announces that she will marry a real man.