[1] Kitty Ayrshire, an opera singer, suffers from a cold, thus preventing her from singing.
Bored, she asks her friend Pierce Tevis to visit her.
Tevis explains that Siegmund Stein, a wealthy manufacturer, has been going out about town with a woman who resembles Kitty; everyone thinks it is her.
Kitty then interrupts him and recounts how while at a party at the Steins's, she had to use her lover Peppo to excuse her from her persistent hosts.
A few weeks later however, her picture with both Siegmund Stein and his new wife was in the papers.