Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus.
At first the secret works, but then the mysterious Mannion, whose emotions cannot b.
He agrees on the condition, that, as his daughter is only seventeen, they live apart for the first year.
He persuades her father to let him marry her secretly.
He follows her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin, only daughter of a linen draper.
Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus