Flo, a village milliner, goes to the city and mingles with a vicious set. She is living with Dick in luxurious apartments. She writes her parents that she has a position in a millinery store at a small salary. They write that they are coming to visit her and she is alarmed. She rents a cheap room and introduces them to it as her home. They leave and she accompanies them to the station and then returns to the humble apartments and thinks of her deception, the shame of it all and the life she is leading, and she is obsessed by a desire to reform. That night she meets her gay companions at a café and tells them that she has decided to forsake the immoral life and return home. They greet her decision with jeers, but she leaves. She is followed by Dick to their apartments, but she repulses him and returns to her native village. There she meets Anson, who loves her. She loves him in return, but cannot bring herself to mate with the good man. She meets Dick on the street and he forces her to meet him, saying he must have money and she must assist him to get it. The building committee of the village church meets and the money is entrusted to Anson. He passes the isolated spot where Flo meets Dick. Dick secretes himself and Anson shows Flo the money. Dick being a witness unbeknown to the minister. The preacher goes and Dick rejoins Flo and tells her he is going to rob the pastor. Flo forestalls him by gaining entrance to the study of the pastor through a window, armed with a revolver. Anson is seated in an adjoining room. Dick enters through the door and is covered by Flo with a gun. She demands him to go and not rob the church, but in her fright she weakens and Dick knocks the gun from her hand, the noise of which arouses the minister and he grapples with Dick, overpowering him. Dick thinks he has the solution and orders Anson to release him or he will tell the world the shame of Flo. She tells the preacher to hold him and then Dick tells of Flo's past life. When Dick has finished, the minister points to the door, bids Dick go, and takes the trembling girl in his arms. He will forgive and forget her past life.
