Julia Seaton, a rich heiress, has two suitors, Dr. John Seymour, a wealth physician, and Richard Calhoun, a poor lawyer. They both propose on the same evening, but while inclined to prefer John, Julia has not yet made a definite choice, and tells both to come back in a month for their answer. The scene shifts to the squalid home of a charwoman, Mrs. Smith, who, ill in bed and unable to earn the rent money, is about to be evicted with her tiny daughter, May. The mother faints from weakness, and May rushes for a doctor. She sees Seymour’s sign in a window and asks him to help her mother. Then the man shows his character. Because she has no money, he turns her away. Calhoun, the lawyer, meets May, learns of her plight, and, although poor, pays the overdue rent and the family moves back into the house. But the privations she has suffered prove fatal to the mother and tiny May is left an orphan. On her deathbed, Mrs. Smith is found by Miss Seaton, who is visiting the poor quarters on charity work, and on the charwoman’s passing, the society girl adopts poor little May. The child becomes a happy member of the Seaton family and at the end of the month is the fast friend of the kind-hearted Julia. At the end of the month, too, Julia prepares to decide who shall be her life partner, as promised. But it is little May who really decides. At sight of Seymour, she recalls the physician who turned her away, and denounces him to his own and Miss Julia’s face. May recognizes Calhoun as the friend in need, and tells Miss Julia so. The latter feels that Calhoun is a real man and would make a splendid husband, so it’s a cinch that “The Best Man Wins.”