Sister Violet and Olive own a large farm. Violet is a good businesswoman; Olive is studious and shy. Both love young college boy Al. Old Stubbs wants to marry Violet because their farms are next to each other. Edward, the farm foreman, loves Violet but she considers him beneath her. Violet discovers that her love for Al is not returned and her jealousy rises to an insane frenzy when she finds that Al and her sister are engaged. In her rage she throws her sister to the floor and runs from the house. Se sees a sign stating that the Gypsies are in camp and have love potions for sale. While bargaining for one in the wild hope that she may win Al's love, her jealousy rises until she buys poison from the Gypsies. Old Stubbs, Violet's venerable suitor, sees this and follows her. She goes into her sister's room and puts the poison in her medicine; Old Stubbs sees this through the window and orders her to go back into the kitchen. She wants to take back the poison, but Old Stubbs forbids her to touch it. He demands that she marry him or he will accuse her. She is about to consent when her foreman Edward, an unobserved witness of the poison episode, comes into the kitchen with the glass containing the poison, which he throws into the fire and puts Old Stubbs out. Later, Violet marries the foreman and Olive marries Al.
—Moving Picture World synopsis