[1] Based on a novel by Sir Gilbert Parker, The Translation of a Savage,[2] the story had been filmed before in the silent era in 1920 as Behold My Wife!

Michael Carter, a young New York socialite, returns home drunk, telling the butler that he intends to marry Mary White the next day.

Diana tells Mary that Michael has left for France, and that he often falls in love with women and promises to wed them but then leaves them "at the church."

At one bar he meets an intoxicated Apache man named Pete and invites him to share a drink from his bottle.

Tonita tries to save her Indian friend, and Michael asks her to marry him as a way to get even with his prejudiced, status-seeking family.

Tonita is beautiful and answers cleverly to impertinent people, but Michael is furious because he feels his family has triumphed over him.