Wanting to hide her “sinful” pregnancy from her relatives, Helen Ellison persuades her friend Charlotte to meet instead her Uncle David, who is flying to New York, who last saw his niece when she was ten years old. Reluctantly, Charlotte agrees to the forgery. But when she sees her “uncle,” who turns out to be not an old farmer at all, but a young successful businessman, she falls in love with him. A reciprocal feeling flares up in David’s heart. The deception is eventually revealed, and after a short quarrel the lovers decide to get married...