Plot

Thomas Goddard proposes to Edith Walton and is accepted. Preparations are made for their marriage. The night before her marriage she cannot sleep; she can only think. She is to marry the catch of the season, and be surrounded by wealth and luxury. She can't reason it out, but there is something lacking. It is romance. As the dawn peeps in and Edith realizes that she has but a few hours of freedom left, she feels impelled to go outdoors and walk. She dons simple clothes and tiptoes downstairs. The front of the house is locked but Edith gets out through a rear window, just in time to meet the milkman on the back steps. The milkman is a husky, red-cheeked youth, who has a record of housemaid sweethearts. He mistakes Edith for a new maid and proceeds to get in right. In the mood for any sort of adventure, Edith half encourages the youth. He invites her for a ride on his wagon and she daringly accepts. Edith grows hungry and he gives her a bottle of milk. His milk all served, the driver halts his horse in a quiet lane, intending to become better acquainted with his new conquest. He uses all his well-tried arts, but has never had quite so hard a time gaining a kiss from a girl. But this makes him determined and Edith is becoming alarmed, when on that quiet lane, appears Thomas Goddard. Tom, the night before, had been given a farewell dinner by his bachelor friends which has put him in a frame of mind that compels him to seek a last few free hours. The shock is mutual. Tom demands to know the meaning of this. The exasperated milkman, interrupted at his favorite sport, bids Tom to go along about his business. There is a fight in which the milkman comes out second best. Then come explanations. All go off in the milk team and at eight are married by a country minister while the society folks at home search high and low for the bride and groom. Tom and Edith have half a mind to start right out on their honeymoon without going back home, but decide it would be a shame to cheat society out of its ceremony, so they return in the milk wagon secretly and show up at high noon to go through with the red tape. But as the minister ties the knot in a perfectly formal way, Tom and Edith exchange winks, which are really little signs of a happy marriage, meaning that their perfectly formal marriage was not unattended by romance.—Moving Picture World synopsis