A fisherman catches a mermaid and wishes for her to be human. / Sheila Grey's homely suitor Henry Mallory gives her a brooch that seems almost alive. / Impoverished Cora Peddington shops for a cheap funeral for her husband.
A captured mermaids awakens emotions in a heartless sea captain, who struggles to keep her alive. A business-like widow goes shopping for the cheapest funeral she can find for her deceased husband. An unlikely suitor gives a mysterious fur brooch to a woman who spurned his advances towards her.