Robert Blake, whose father has a big dressmaking establishment, is in love with Kitty, who works in her aunt's, Mme. Helene's millinery shop. Blake. Sr., wishes his son to marry Violet, daughter of one of his biggest customers. The girl is ill-tempered and snobbish, but has fallen in love with Robert. Her mother invites him to accompany them to the Vitagraph theater, but he declines, pleading previous engagement, which they discover, is to take Kitty to the same theater. Mother and daughter contemplate revenge. They warn John Blake of his son's infatuation for the little milliner, and he goes to the shop where he has been told Robert is calling, to give him a piece of his mind. There he is persuaded that Kitty is in reality not a girl at all, but a wonderful model or automaton. Kitty poses on a pedestal without winking an eyelash, and Blake is completely fooled. Robert persuades him to buy it for their showroom, and dad insists on having it delivered at once. However, Kitty is game and allows herself to be crated in and carted off to the Blake concern in an express wagon. During her enforced imprisonment in the showroom, Kitty catches a burglar with the pistol-like electric flashlight Robert has given her. Robert on learning this sends for his father, explains all to the astonished gentleman, and expatiates on Kitty's bravery until he relents and gives his consent to their marriage. All return to the basement shop where Madame Helene is appraised of the happy ending of the little romance.
