This cleverly acted comedy shows us an old fellow who has a great propensity for flirting with every pretty woman he meets. One day he accompanies his wife to the dressmaker’s, whore he leaves her to have a new gown tried on while lie saunters down the street in search of diversion. His wife puts on the new gown, and after throwing a heavy veil over her face, she goes out to keep an appointment with one of her admirers. Her husband, not recognizing her in tile new gown, follows her for a long distance, until finally she turns into a hotel, where she meets her friend. The old flirt, not to be thwarted in his design to make her acquaintance, waits outside. After some time the woman glances out of the window, when, to her great horror, she recognizes her husband standing at the door of the hotel. Fearing his anger should he see her, she changes clothes with the colored bell boy, and the latter, heavily veiled, is seen leaving the hotel. The old flirt, thinking he is the woman for whom he has been waiting, follows on. When the supposed beauty stops in front of a jewelry store the old fool approaches her and offers to buy her a watch, so they go in and make the purchase and then repair to a café, where they sit down to have some refreshments. The old beau gets the shock of his life when he assists his fair companion to remove her veil, and he makes a hasty exit. His wife is waiting for him as he enters his home, and denounces him for staying away so long. He attempts to offer some lame excuse, but when his indignant better half finds the veil in his pocket he confesses all, and producing the watch presents her with it, and thereby makes her so happy that she forgives the old simpleton and calls matters square.