Harry Sweet in the story is an outcast from society, as he is a ne'er do well. He rents a room where Gale Henry is a landlady. He is unable to pay his room rent. Instead of paying his room rent with money he earned. Someone was always selling him something on his way home to pay the rent. Finally, the landlady threatens to put him out of the house, but as she goes to notify him, she hears an attorney reading the will of his grandfather, who has left Harry Sweet a million dollars. From then on he is chased by women, and his landlady Gale Henry in particular, all of the women trying to marry him.