Edward Stanley, a well-known writer, marries a society butterfly with no appreciation of his work. She is annoying him constantly and interfering with his studies. When he tries to show her his point of view and how imperative it is that he should have seclusion, she takes it as a personal affront, declaring that he is utterly indifferent to her enjoyment. Later, when business troubles come upon the impractical man of letters and he is obliged to sell his home to make good, Bella Stanley indignantly leaves him and goes to live with her mother. Not long after this, she is killed in an automobile accident. Meanwhile, Stanley, who is trying to ferret out who is to blame for things going wrong in his office has occasion to investigate the life of his chief stenographer, whom he finds to be a girl of exceptional sympathy and character. Through Ida Drew's kindness to a poor messenger boy, however, the mismanagement of certain "trust funds" is traced to Robert Long, Stanley's bookkeeper. Stanley writes a novel, "In Tune," revealing the sympathetic relations between himself and Ida. When he gives it to her to read she recognizes the chief characters in the romance, and not long afterward, she becomes the wife of the author.
