Three men from the same firm chat in a railway compartment: the cocky young Ken Bellerman, who has been appointed manager, the experienced Arthur Hogan, who is retiring, and the experienced Ken Foliot, who is drunk. Foliot is passed out, and Bellerman and Hogan have an argument. The train stops at a cafe at the town of Quinto where the eomployees include Mr Lamington and a widow Ina. Arthur has been romancing Ina, and proposes to her. She turns out to be the mother of Ken Bellerman.