Bobby and his uncle live together in bachelor disorder, until Bobby makes friends with Aida, who is living with her maiden aunt in the house next door, and who are also finding many difficulties in an unmarried state. While Bobby and his uncle John are struggling with buttons that refuse to stay on, Aida and her aunt Jane have their own troubles with wood that is reluctant to be chopped. Through the offices of the appealing Bobby and the delightful Aida, the aunt and uncle are married and all come to live together in Uncle John’s house. For a time all is serene and the four are very happy, but Aunt Jane begins to resent John’s smoking in the house, reprimands him severely for not wiping his feet, refuses to allow him to attend his lodge meetings and in many ways gradually changes from a loving wife into a tyrant. Bobby and Aida watch all this, and with childish imitativeness work it into their play. One day Aunt Jane hears the children in the yard just after she has had a bitter quarrel with Uncle John and steals out to watch them. The little ones are playing at being married and in their play enact the scenes which they have witnessed in the house. Aida bullies and tyrannizes over her play-husband, Bobby, scolds him for not wiping his feet, snatches his corn-cob pipe from his mouth, tells him she has nothing to wear, and so antagonizes him that he rebels and refuses to play further. Jane, realizing whither she and her husband have been drifting, goes silently back to the house, but she has learned her lesson and when John returns that evening she goes back to her attitude of the first days of marriage, they are reconciled, and beam lovingly at each other while Bobby and Aida smile knowingly at them.