Jean May and Noah Wilson are employed in a department store and they are apparently very much in love. Will Pickup, a masher, sees Jean and tries to flirt with her; he places his hat on one of the stools. While paying attention to Jean a customer comes in and sits on Will’s hat. Will discovers the accident and as it is a half-holiday, the store closing at one o’clock, he hastens to purchase a new hat. Jean and Noah leave the store. Jean gives Noah her hand-bag, while she puts on her gloves. She cannot button the glove. Noah, on trying to help her, puts the handbag into his pocket. After a short walk Jean says Noah cannot go home with her, whereupon Noah claims she does not love him. Jean says she does and kisses him, much to the surprise of Noah. Jean, realizing what she has done, runs away. Noah, of course, is delighted, puts his hand in his pocket and discovers he has Jean’s hand-bag. He calls to her, but she keeps on running. Noah decides to catch her, and in his haste runs into a crowd of people coming from a factory. A girl is knocked down and her friends, thinking she has been robbed of her hand-bag, follows Noah. Jean gets on a car and meets Will Pickup again. Not having any money, as it is in her hand-bag that Noah has, Will Pickup offers to pay her fare, but a man-hater in the car sees his actions and he is rather roughly handled. The woman insists on paying Jean’s fare. Noah loses the car and takes a shortcut to Jean’s home with the crowd still following. Jean, realizing that she has passed the right street, gets hurriedly off the car. She falls and sprains her ankle. Finally she reaches home and falls fainting on the steps of her house. Noah comes up and tries to assist her. The crowd, thinking he is assaulting her, pounces upon him, and beats him up when Officer Chase arrives. He is about to arrest Noah when Jean comes from the crowd and tells the officer that Noah is her sweetheart and the hand-hag is hers.