Mary is forced into shoplifting to keep up with her rich sorority sisters.

Ethel may be forced to abandon the man she loves for her father’s rich friend.

Walter Grey’s family of social climbers is embarrased by his circus rider wife, but she is more disturbed by the society they are so desperate to break into.

Mr. Burton spends six years abroad leaving his daughters behind. He returns with a new wife but has forgotten that the girls have grown up and might not want a new mother.

Lucie falls in love with a man who is secretly the nephew of the aristocrat who condemned her father to decades of imprisonment in the Bastille.