Rollie, the youthful heir to the business of Stephen Barnard, a merchant prince of seventy years, is distracted by a love affair with an actress, Lilyan De Voe. Old Mr. Barnard finds in Lora White, one of the young women employed in the millinery department of his wonderful store, a confidante who appreciates his anxiety for his grandson, and together they devise a plot to break off the infatuation. Madame Brock and others watch what they suppose to be a romance developing between Lora and Mr. Barnard, who is old enough to be her grandfather.