Margaret, “The Mutual Girl,” is observed rubbing her eyes in bewilderment at the beautiful scene about her as she awakens from a pleasant night of happy dreams and is subtly conscious of luxury and softness. For a moment, she fails to understand the metamorphosis from a cold, farm house room, with its stiff, old-fashioned furniture and hard bed to a boudoir of beauty and costly furnishings, but as her eyes gradually open and become fixed on the heavy canopies of her Louis XIV bedstead, and her hands grope about amid a wealth of soft coverings, the realization becomes fixed that a new life is dawning on her and she is enthusiastic to rise and meet it. Her maid enters and places a tray of tempting delicacies before her, and as she nibbles at her toast, her aunt enters and discusses plans for a day of pleasure. Meanwhile, in a remote section of the city, amid squalid surroundings and poverty, the country boy sweetheart of Margaret is awakening from a terrible night of discomfort. He is seen shivering in a hall bedroom of an east side tenement and. unable to stand the cold any longer, he arises and prepares to seek employment. A want ad in a daily paper catches his eye. He reads that the Cunard Steamship Co. desires the services of a young man to act as a guide on the docks, and he hastens to the pier, hoping to be the lucky one. The scene again shifts to Margaret’s boudoir, where she has completed her toilet and is discussing the trip to the Yale-Princeton football game with her aunt, which they attend that afternoon. During the game a French Count of distinction and a friend of the Van Wycks greet Margaret’s aunt, and after being introduced to her niece, are invited to call. The country boy secures the job and the following day witnesses the arrival of a transatlantic liner. Among the passengers are two women, whose peculiar actions on the pier arouse the suspicions of the country boy. While he is watching them, the Count arrives on the scene and there is a whispered conversation between the trio. Convinced that they are smugglers or are planning some crooked deed, the country boy seeks permission to follow them. The country boy has learned Margaret’s address and that evening, after work, goes to call on her. Mistaken for the Count, the maid ushers the country boy into the drawing room, where Margaret goes into ecstasies of delight when she sees him. Her pleasure is interrupted by the arrival of the Count, who the country boy immediately recognizes as the man whom he suspected of being a smuggler, and a sharp argument ensues. Margaret’s aunt dismisses the country boy, and receives the Count with gracious hospitality. On the following day Margaret’s aunt receives an invitation from the only woman senator in the United States, Mrs. Helen Robinson, of Colorado, inviting her and her niece to visit. The invitation is accepted and on the way the two ladies go shopping. They visit Joseph’s famous millinery shop in Fifth Avenue and make expensive selections.