Van Kirby and his wife Vera are happily married until mother-in-law appears, then trouble commences. She objects to the tardiness of Van. After a short quarrel with wifie and mother-in-law, Van leaves for the office. Vera and her mother leave for the country, but before going, the former orders Vance to take all her husband's clothes to Cohan, the tailor, to be pressed and sent on to the country by evening. Vera sends a wire to Van telling him that she has all his clothes in the country, that she is sorry, and that he is to come to her that evening. Van wires that he will arrive on the six o'clock train. He arrives at the depot, slips on a banana peel, and as he is getting up he sees the train moving away with his suitcase on the step. Not wishing to appear at the hotel in such a condition, he takes the negro, who threw the banana peel on the ground, back to his office, disrobes, and sends his pants to Cohan's to be cleaned and pressed at once. The boy, knowing the rest of the clothes have been sent to the country, sends them also. Van waits in the office expecting the pants to appear any minute. He calls on the phone, but can get no one. He finds a raincoat, and late that night starts for his city home. Vera meets the train, and is disappointed. She decides to go to the city, thinking Van has gone home. She arrives at the house, and is disappointed at not finding Van there, she goes to bed. Van starts for home. He arrives at the house and attempts to enter. He is arrested by Collins as a burglar, and placed in the cell with an Irishman. The following morning, almost delirious from cold, he is sent to the hospital, and found raving about his trousers. The doctor phones for his wife. In the meantime, Mrs. Leadbeater, finding that her daughter has disappeared, hurries back to the city. She arrives at the home just as Vera is about to rush to Van, and accompanies her daughter. Van is all spruced up in new clothes, but looks rather ill. Vera places her arms around his neck, promising never to leave him again.
Moving Picture World, August 4, 1917