Edith, the little schoolteacher, and her sweetheart, Jack, have a quarrel, and as she is beloved by all the scholars, they extend their sympathy. Little Billy in particular is deeply grieved, and when she writes a letter to her sweetheart calling him back, but which her pride makes her ashamed to mail, Billy gets hold of the note and sees that it reaches the proper party. Jack hastens to Edith, and we find that Billy's act does more than effect a reconciliation, for it saves Edith from the terrible advances of a half-witted country boy, hitherto considered harmless, who also loved the little teacher, overstepping the boundary line of rationality in threatening death to both if she did not reciprocate his affection. The girl, however, knowing the half-wit's weakness for flowers, soothes him with a bouquet until Jack enters and releases her from her terrible ordeal.
—Moving Picture World synopsis