Jack Spencer s'absorbeix tant en els seus negocis que descuida la seva dona Eileen que, per avorriment i soledat, accepta les atencions del novel·lista Carter Ballantyne, però la nit que han de fugir, ella s'assabenta que Jack ha perdut els seus diners i la seva vista, així que ella acomiada el seu pretendent i es compromet a recaptar els diners per a l'operació del seu marit.

Neglected by her workaholic husband Jack, Eileen Spencer begins an affair with novelist Carter Ballantyne. Their planned elopement is halted when Eileen learns that Jack has lost both his money and his eyesight, and she feels compelled to return to care for him. With her friend Dolly Page, Eileen cheats at cards amassing a fortune to send Jack to France for treatment. Carter reappears, threatening to expose her unless she submits to him. Intending merely to reason with Carter, Eileen gives him a key to her apartment, but Jack returns home unexpectedly and finds him there. At her birthday dinner, Eileen, in anticipation of Carter's plan to expose her publicly, confesses her guilt, whereas her husband and her friends forgive her.