Erma Desmond leaves her uncle and aunt to visit a friend, Phyllis, in the city. There, she finds work as the companion to the highly temperamental Mrs. Stanley. Mrs. Stanley has terrorized her husband to such an extent that he has gone away for a few months, purportedly to take their daughter to school, but mainly to get some peace. The servants, however, are still victims of her terrible fits until the day she decides to head for Reno to get a divorce.

Cast

Ruth Roland

Erma Desmond / Bertie Stanley

Andrew Arbuckle

Prof. Stanley

R. Henry Grey

Elbert Chetwynde

Daniel Gilfether

Marguerite Nichols

Phyllis Burnham

Madeline Pardee

Mrs. Baddly Bytton

Lulu Bowers

Gilberta Stanley

Fred Whitman

Chester Clynch