 When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor s office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn t save her--takes an interest in the woman s young daughter, and makes her his ward, but his fiancé doesn t particularly like it. After he returns from a three-year engagement in Europe, the doctor discovers that his ward is now a beautiful, full-grown woman, and finds himself falling for her--even though she s engaged to his fiancé s brother.