Richard Cromwell

When a gang chief is killed, his son is called upon to run the reorganized mob, but the naive new boss thinks he has inherited a legitimate business.

Middle-aged housekeeper Emma (Marie Dressler) helps a lonely widower, Ronald Smith (Richard Cromwell) raising his spoiled and over-entitled children. When Smith takes Emma on a vacation, he makes his feelings for her known by proposing marriage. Emma happily accepts, but tragedy strikes when Smith dies of a heart attack shortly after. Emma is devastated, but then must face Smith's children, who suspect she may have been involved in the death of their father.

When the holder of their mortgage passes away, a widow and her daughter are made aware of a plot to possess and foreclose on their home.