After complaining about her dull life, shop girl Sally Manvers falls asleep on the roof of her apartment. Drenched from a downpour, Sally awakens and finds the roof entrance locked. She enters the apartment of society woman Mrs. Standish and encounters Mrs. Standish's brother, Walter Arden Savage, opening the safe. Sally protects Savage from a burglar, and after learning that he and his sister plan to steal their jewels to collect insurance money, she agrees to keep quiet if they take her with them to Newport. Although Savage, Donald Lyttleton, and Trego, a Western millionaire, woo her, Sally, who becomes a secretary to Savage's wealthy aunt Mrs. Gosnold, tires of society life. After a detective arrives, Savage plots to have Sally, whom he thinks will squeal, kidnapped, but Mrs. Gosnold changes clothes with her and is abducted instead. Savage recovers her, and at a masquerade ball the thieves are revealed. Sally returns to New York disgusted, but Trego, who earlier rescued her from Lyttleton, follows. Sally accepts his proposal and suggests that they live on Riverside Drive rather than Fifth Avenue or in Newport.—Moving Picture World, December 1, 1917
Sally Manvers, disgusted with her life as a shop-girl, tells her two girl chums that she intends to live by her wits. The girls laugh at her, and she goes up to the roof of the tenement house in which they live. She falls asleep, and is awakened by a downpour of rain. Drenched to the skin, she finds that the roof entrance to her own building has been locked, and she runs across the roofs trying different doors until she comes to one that is unlocked. It leads into the home of Mrs. Standish, a society woman. Sally changes her wet clothes for some of Mrs. Standish's rich apparel. As she is leaving she comes upon Mrs. Standish's brother, Walter Arden Savage. Brother and sister have decided to steal their own property in order to collect insurance money. A burglar enters while Sally is watching Savage, and Sally protects the amateur burglar from the real one. Thinking that this may be a way out of poverty, Sally demands as the price of her silence, that Savage and his sister take her back to Newport with them. They agree. Mrs. Standish writes for her a fraudulent letter of recommendation, supposed to be from a woman who has left for Europe, and Sally goes with them as secretary to their wealthy old aunt, Mrs. Gosnold. In Newport Sally sees little to admire in those about her, with the exception of Mrs. Gosnold and a young western millionaire named Trego, For a time she is interested in Donald Lyttleton. Savage, Lyttleton and Trego all try to make love to her, but Trego is the only one with any honesty of purpose. The detectives investigating the "loss" of the jewels telegraph that they have a clue. Mrs. Standish puts her jewel case in Sally's bureau drawer. Later she takes them out and gives them to Lyttleton to bury on the beach. Sally gives Mrs. Gosnold the empty jewel case, and confesses that she came to Newport under false pretenses. Mrs. Gosnold tells her to keep quiet about her confession for the present. Miss Pride, a spinster, who dislikes Sally, hides some of Mrs. Gosnold's jewels in Sally's bureau. At a masquerade ball Mrs. Gosnold announces that the thief will be given until 12 o'clock that night to write a confession. Savage, fearing that Sally will tell about Mrs. Standish's jewels, plans to abduct her. He asks her to meet him at 1 o'clock. Mrs. Gosnold overhears him and arranges to keep the appointment in her place. She and Sally exchange costumes, and Mrs. Gosnold is driven away by Savage's chauffeur. Trego, who has protected Sally from Lyttleton, proposes to her, but she fears he is like all the other men in the group. Savage is amazed at seeing Sally, and goes to rescue his aunt, who has been kidnapped in her place. A detective accuses Sally of the theft of Mrs. Gosnold's jewels, and she is locked in her room. She escapes, but runs into the arms of Trego. Mrs. Gosnold. returning, denounces Mrs. Standish and Savage, and exposes their scheme. When she announces that she will tell the name of the person who took her own jewels, Miss Pride faints. Sally returns to her little room in New York. Her chums are gone, and she feels forlorn. Trego has followed her, and once more urges her to marry him. He suggests Fifth Avenue, then Newport, as a residence. Both she refuses, but finally asks, "Aren't there any more houses to be had on Riverside Drive?"
