Larry Fellowes of Fellowes Publishing wants Kate to write her next book about the 'Office Wife'. The personal secretary/stenographer spends more time with the busy executive and makes more decisions than his wife ever will. This creates a bond between the secretary and boss that the wife cannot hope to equal. What Larry doesn't know is that sometimes literature mirrors life.—Tony Fontana <[email protected]>

Workaholic, unmarried Lawrence Fellowes (Lewis Stone), who heads his own publishing company, is secretly loved by his devoted, middle-aged secretary, Miss Andrews (Dale Fuller). One night, while working late, Larry casually mentions that he is getting married, prompting Miss Andrews to faint. When Larry's driver later reveals that, on her way home, Miss Andrews tearfully confessed her love for her boss, Larry gives her a long leave of absence, forcing company executive McGowan (Hobart Bosworth) to find a replacement secretary. McGowan selects Anne Murdock (Dorothy Mackaill), a temporary employee in the steno pool, who is as competent as she is pretty, and impresses McGowan with her reliance only on her brains and hard work for advancement. When Larry returns from his honeymoon in Europe with his wife Linda (Natalie Moorhead), he initially is wary of his pretty new secretary, but they soon develop a rapport, and Larry increasingly relies on his "office wife," as his friend, author Kate Halsey (Blanche Friderici), calls a good secretary. Although Anne will not admit the truth to her sister Katherine (Joan Blondell) or her boyfriend, reporter Ted O'Hara (Walter Merrill), Anne begins to fall in love with Larry, and he with her. Meanwhile, Linda, who prefers an active social life to staying at home waiting for Larry, begins to see Jamison (Brooks Benedict), an old friend. Some time later, at a resort hotel to which Larry has asked Anne to come and work, they kiss one evening, but quickly decide that it was a mistake. Later, when Larry discovers Jamison's hotel room key in Linda's purse, he puts it back, pretending that he never saw it. After returning home and tearfully confessing to Katherine that she loves Larry, Anne decides to turn in her 30 days' notice. Katherine advises her to use her relationship with her boss, but, instead, Anne accepts Ted's proposal and hands in her notice to Larry, telling him that she is engaged. Over the next 30 days, Anne and Larry fight their feelings, even though they are in love with each other. The night before Anne's final day at the office, Larry and Linda have a talk about their marriage and amicably agree that their feelings for each other have changed and that they should part. The next day, while Anne takes her last letter of dictation from Larry, Ted, who has been promoted to an editor on his paper, calls Katherine and reveals that Larry and Linda have separated and that gossips are speculating that if Anne were not marrying him, she would have been named as a co-respondent in the divorce. Katherine then calls Anne, but she says that she is too busy to talk. Within a few minutes, though, Larry himself inadvertently reveals the divorce, prompting Anne to faint. Moments Later, Katherine calls again, and when Larry answers, she lies that Anne has broken her engagement to Ted because of her feelings for him. Later that night, Anne and Larry lovingly embrace on the beach, talking about their future together, as Anne says that, next time, she wants to pick out his secretary.