The plot is even worse
With a bouquet of flowers in one hand and a Pomeranian puppy in the other, wealthy young Melville G. Carruthers calls upon his sweetheart, Grace Adams, with the intention of proposing, but is so overcome by bashfulness he is barely able to speak. All he can do is hand her the flowers, whose petals he nervously plucked off on his way to see her. When she laughs at him, the “poor simp” goes to an underworld café to drown his sorrows. Innocently caught up in a brawl, Melville is knocked unconscious, and awakens back at his apartment with a cabaret girl named Sadie Kelly tending his sore head. As Grace and her mother suddenly arrive, Melville is unable to explain Sadie’s presence, and Grace storms out, wishing never to see him again. Melville sinks into such despair, his friend, Doctor Crawford, diagnoses him as temporarily insane, and believes the only way to shake Melville out of his suicidal state of mind is to make him believe a gang of thugs is out to kill him and hurt Grace. Dr. Crawford hires several men to menace Melville, sends him threatening letters, and leaves a bomb in his apartment. Meanwhile, Sadie Kelly convinces Grace that Melville loves her, and when she telephones him to patch up their romance and set their wedding for that very day, he immediately forgets all his troubles. Unfortunately, the ruse is still going. A “dead body” turns up in his kitchen, and several cutthroats kidnap him. Rising to the occasion, Melville escapes, rushes to Grace’s house, and finds the wedding being prepared, but he is still so manic that she becomes frightened and calls it off. Later, Melville meets her on the street and convinces her of his sanity. They hurry to a little church nearby.
