Poor Jaime goes to sea to earn enough money to marry Jenny, where he is believed to be lost. Left to support her parents, Jenny is persuaded to marry old Robin Gray.

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 embarrassed by his circus rider wife, but she is more disturbed by the society they are so desperate to break into.