Genevieve Watts, an heiress, weary of society life, remonstrates with her conventional aunt, declaring that within a year she will convince her that society is all sham. Several months later, Genevieve, who has gone into the country to sketch, meets a charming young girl, Mary Newel, whom she invites to spend a winter in New York. Genevieve buys Mary the most beautiful clothes that the city affords, and introduces her to society as a mysterious princess driven to the United States by the war, where she is traveling incognita. Soon the young man with whom Genevieve is in love becomes infatuated with the supposed princess, and so before long the heiress exposes the fraud. Immediately all the world turns cold to Mary, who is glad to escape back to her country home and her own people. But Genevieve has proved her point.
—Moving Picture World synopsis