Jack Potts, in love with Connie, takes the liberty of getting a marriage license before he proposes. Knowing that the high-strung girl would throw him over if she knew that he had it all worked out in advance, he gets very nervous when he mislays the paper somewhere in her house. Fearing she will find it, he searches everywhere and has a difficult time keeping out of the way of the family and servants. He sneaks into the room of a visiting girl friend and searches the bedclothes for the missing document. He hears Connie at the door. Afraid of being compromised if she finds him in the other girl's room, he climbs out the window and is arrested as a porch climber and returned to the house in irons. Connie's father vouches for him and the cop lets him go, but the girl friend, who has found the license, shows it to the family. Indignantly Connie casts Potts out of her life forever--but later changes her mind and follows him, hating to see the license go to waste.