Piqued by her husband’s apparent neglect, the wife of a college professor elopes with her admirer, deserting her little baby. On the same day, the professor’s favorite pupil, a young woman, gets news of her father’s death and leaves college. Her photograph, a parting gift, lies on the professor’s table. The baby, now a five-year-old girl, pines for a mother’s love, and, finding the picture one day, asks: “Is that my mama?” To get rid of her, the professor says, “Yes.” Next day the little girl is taken by her nurse to a dressmaker recommended by the professor’s secretary, and the child recognizes the original of the photograph, to her joy and that of her father.