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- During a trip to Europe, society girl Chaddie Green discovers that she is destitute. She returns to the United States and meets Duncan MacKail, who is equally broke, except for a parcel of grainland in the Western plains. After the two are married, Duncan hires Ollie, a Swedish caretaker, who Chaddie finds intimidating. While Duncan is away on business, Chaddie travels fifteen miles to visit Percy Woodhouse, an Englishman who has become ill. Her horse runs away, and she is forced to spend the night. Although she sleeps under a wagon, Duncan is nevertheless angry and jealous. Chaddie moves Percy into her home to nurse him back to health, hoping his presence will restrain the violent Ollie. Duncan leaves in a fit of jealousy, but he soon returns with a servant named Olga as a peace offering. She and Percy fall in love, while Ollie hangs himself, leaving a note confessing to his murderous instincts. Chaddie and Duncan become parents and find happiness in their prairie home.
- To save her father from bankruptcy, Nan Everard marries wealthy Peter Craddock and under protest goes with him to South America. En route she is injured in an automobile wreck, but Peter continues the trip. He returns to find her renewing an old friendship, and though she hopes to obtain a divorce she finally surrenders to his stronger will.
- Young Barry Adams is determined to marry the beautiful Celia and has continuously proposes to her, only to be turned down each time because she doesn't think he's mature enough to settle down yet. One day he receives a note from a woman who turns out to be an obsessed former girlfriend. What happens next convinces him that he is indeed ready to settle down with Celia.
- After visiting her mother for Sunday dinner, Ellen Llewellyn, a chorus girl, is late for the rehearsal of a Boston musical, but she is spared the wrath of the stage manager when the orchestra leader, Andy Owens, diverts his attention until she is in place. Andy has often proposed to Ellen but is always refused, for she feels that marriage to him would mean an uncertain and marginal existence. Ellen meets aristocratic, wealthy Tony Winterslip, who soon proposes to her; she turns him down also, knowing him to be unambitious and dependent upon his name and fortune. When Ellen catches pneumonia, Tony provides her with a nurse and then persuades her to convalesce at the family mansion. Ellen is bored by the dull routine of life in the Winterslip home, and Tony's grandmother, realizing that Ellen would never be happy with Tony, reunites her with Andy. They are now married, on the promise of a rewarding career for Andy, who has just sold a musical to Broadway.
- Robert Powell, a New York City husband is fond of going out on the town and making friends with various women here and there, with nightclub dancers high on his list. His wife, Betty, figures that two can play that game, and she dons a mask and becomes a very popular dancer. Robert falls in love with the Masked Dancer, not knowing she is his wife. Betty has a smoothie Prince as a second suitor.