Richard Rockwall, the son of retired factory owner Anthony Rockwall, has just returned home from college. The young man tells his father that there is a thing that you can’t buy for money - love. The father wonders why a handsome, educated young man cannot win the girl’s heart. The fact is that this secular girl is very busy, she has a schedule every minute and she does not have time to meet with Richard, so he cannot make love to her and make an offer of marriage. And tomorrow she leaves for Europe for two years and he has only a few minutes to say goodbye to her.

The father puts at the disposal of his son his whole account, the aunt gives the family ring only so that Richard is lucky in love.

At the appointed time, at the station, Richard catches his sweetheart, Miss Lantry. He takes a cab and rides with her to the theater. On the way, they get stuck in traffic due to the tram and the mail van. On all sides they were surrounded by a confusion of carriages and horses. After spending two hours in a traffic jam, Richard declared Miss Lantry's love and won her consent.

The next day, a man came to Mr. Anthony Rockwall and showed an estimate for the payment of vans, cabs, teams, policemen, everyone who participated in the traffic jam. Here are just a chubby undressed boy with a bow and arrow was not there.