Lulu is an unmarried woman who does all the work for her sister Ina’s demanding family. Lulu’s chief nemesis is her brother-in-law Dwight Deacon, a petty tyrant who mocks the women of the family. When Dwight’s world-traveling brother Ninian arrives for a visit, he sympathizes with Lulu’s plight and the two are accidentally married in a ceremony that is intended as a joke but turns out to be valid. But Lulu has other ideas about her situation.