Wealthy American widow Elizabeth Carter plans to marry the Earl of Dettminster when lawyer Augustus Tucker informs her of a codicil in her late husband's will. The Carter fortune will go to nephew Pitney Carter, who is in love with Elizabeth, if her second husband is not an American. Elizabeth therefore pays penniless playwright Jasper Mallory $50,000 to marry her and schemes with actress Mme. Albani to provide grounds for divorce so that she may then make the earl her third husband.
Ethel Barrymore
as Elizabeth Carter
Irving Cummings
as Jasper Mallory
H. Dudley Hawley
as Earl of Dettminster (as Dudley Hawley)
Ernest Stallard
as Augustus Tucker
Charles Dickson
as Theodore Bacon
Alfred Kappeler
as Pitney Carter (as Alfred Kappler)
Arthur Lewis
as Carstairs
Pearl Browne
as Mme. Albani
