In order to check up on the behaviour of the man who wishes to marry his daughter Francois takes a job as a manservant in the suitor's house.

A shopkeeper who has a daughter of marriageable age spends his time dissuading suitors from pursuing her... then a young artist arrives at the shop to return a handbag belonging to the shopkeeper's wife, which he has found on a bus.

The story of a hilariously impeded marriage. The mistress of the groom visits her erstwhile lover but her straw hat is eaten by a horse. She must find another straw hat before she goes home to her husband...