Known as "Wildflower," Letty Roberts meets Arnold Boyd, a wealthy man who is weary of life in the city. Arnold thinks that Letty is merely a charming child, however, his playboy brother Gerald is attracted to her and charms her into eloping with him. Arnold catches up with the couple just after their wedding, and after a fight with Gerald, takes Letty away to the Boyd family home in New York. He introduces her as his own wife because, he says, he wants to save her reputation. Even Letty's parents do not know to which brother she is married. Letty's stay in the mansion opens her eyes to the world outside of her rural environment and eventually she realizes that while Arnold appears to be hard and uncaring, it is really he, not Gerald, whose feelings for her are the deepest. When she realizes Gerald's true character, Letty decides that she will be happier with Arnold.—Pamela Short

Letty Roberts, a pretty and unsophisticated child of Nature, dreams and frolics her time away on a little farm on the edge of the woods, far from the city. One day a stranger comes, Arnold Boyd, a wealthy man who has chosen the seclusion of the forest as a rest from wearisome society duties. He meets Letty, and is delighted with her daintiness and fragile beauty, and at once makes friends with the shy little creature of the woods. He thinks of her only as an interesting child, however, and when visited by his scapegrace brother, Gerald, who is by his own confession, "a constant worshiper at the shrine of woman," Arnold views with alarm and discomfort Gerald's flirtatious attitude toward little Letty. Gerald hails Arnold's nickname of "Wildflower" as appropriate to Letty, and begins an ardent courtship of the child-woman, whose innocence and ignorance lead her to mistake the dross for gold. After a tempestuous wooing, Letty is swept off her feet by the impetuous Gerald, and elopes with him. Arnold learns of the elopement, and immediately pursues the pair, reaching them just after the wedding ceremony has been concluded. After a struggle with his brother, Arnold knocks Gerald down, and by means of train and auto spirits Letty away from her new-made husband, despite her desperate efforts to escape, all of which he thwarts. Arnold takes Letty to the old Fifth Avenue mansion of the Boyds in New York, and introduces her there to the members of the household as his wife, telling Letty this course is necessary to protect her reputation, but not fully explaining why. Even Letty's parents, who know of the elopement, do not know which of the Boyds she has married. Overcome by Arnold's arguments and masterful manner, Letty reluctantly consents to remain in the Boyd home for a time, as Arnold's "wife in name only," till such time as Gerald should come to claim her, which she is sure will be soon. The situations which follow swiftly illustrate in turn Letty's ignorance of the world, her natural innocence, her unfamiliarity with the customs and manners of society, her hot temper, and finally, her generosity and sympathy. The strange secret that Arnold is guarding from her is at last revealed, and there is a mighty readjustment of relations. The stern, elder brother, who had at first only sought to save a woman's reputation, and guard his own family honor, now comes to dream only of love. There is a tremendous renunciation on Letty's part, that at first almost crushes the delicate girl, but becomes less terrible as she realizes the noble nature of the man who has guarded her. At the crisis of the drama her own strength and character is the determining force; the wild flower of the woods becomes as a flaming bush, before which both men bow in awe of an innocence as defensive as the strongest armor. As Letty grows to know Arnold better she finds that the older brother is not the cruel master she had thought him, but the finer man of the two, and at last the drooping little Wildflower revives and blooms happily in the garden of Arnold's faithful love.—Moving Picture World synopsis