Suffering from a nervous breakdown, the actress is ordered to the country. On the farm she meets a country bumpkin who falls in love with her and neglects his sweetheart. At first the affair amuses her, but when she learns of the girl’s love for the rube, she gives him the cold shoulder. That does not make him return to his first love, however, so the actress decks the girl in one of her own beautiful costumes as a bait to love’s eyes. But her beauty thus adorned still fails to impress the rube, so the actress tries another plan. She invites her sweetheart from the city to visit her, and introducing him to the girl, demands that he pretend to be in love with her, so as to arouse the rube’s jealousy. He refuses, but she persuades him, and he sets out for a walk with the girl. He does make the rube jealous, and the latter tries to enlist the aid of the actress in reclaiming his sweetheart, but she laughs at him. The laugh is on her, however, when her sweetheart falls in love with the girl and elopes with her, then sends back a message stating that she shouldn’t have egged him on to it.