 Pappa Wheeler (Eugene Pallette) hires a recently-discharged soldier, Clarence Smith (Roscoe Karns), to repair a water heater and Wheeler keeps him on as an odd-job man around the house. Clarence discovers a few situations brewing in the Wheeler household; daughter Cora (Eleanore Whitney) is in love with past middle-age fortune hunter, Tobias (Theodore von Eltz); son Bobbie (Johnny Downs) is in love with his sister s friend Violet (Charlotte Wynters) and Mrs. Wheeler (Spring Byington) also believes her husband is interested in Violet; and the maid, Della (Inez Inez Courtney) and the butler, Dinwiddle (Richard Powell), are working a shakedown racket on Bobbie. Clarence decides to straighten matters out, and soon has gotten rid of Tobias and exposed the maid s racket. But he falls in love with Violet himself. Returning from a date with her in the wee hours of the morning, Mr. Wheeler demands an explanation, which Clarence refuses to give. The miffed-Tobias returns to accuse Clarence of being an escaped embezzler.