Mrs. Smith inquires from an attorney if he has a clerk who is single, to pose as her husband. Eddie is assigned. He accompanies Mrs. Smith to the seaside, only to fall madly in love with Victoria, a pretty young woman who is at the beach with her mother. However, when Victoria discovers that Eddie is married, what she tells him causes him to smile on the wrong side of his face. He denies it, but the hotel register speaks stronger than his protests. At the height of Eddie's misery a new misfortune threatens him. Mr. Smith, the steeped-in-the-blood westerner, arrives at the hotel in search of his wife and intent upon killing a certain young man who is posing as her husband. Eddie gets one good look at Smith and beats it. He is saved through the intercession of Mrs. Smith. Victoria forgives him.
