Dawling was a charming but limited creature with only one idea in her pretty head: her daughter Meryon should marry money. Meryon's own ideas were more romantic, and it was a great shock to her to find that the pair of them were regarded as unscrupulous gold-diggers by the one man who really mattered to her. Somehow, it became very important that Gregory should change his opinion.

    But Ellen was young and very lovely and Cyrus Dent, the handsome new intern, was piqued by her indifference. His efforts to win her favor resulted only in antagonizing her. It took all his charm and ingenuity finally to convince her that being the wife of a struggling young small town practitioner was an even higher calling that that of being a trained nurse.