Plot

Mr. Crabb has a wife who is addicted to flirting. A young novelist receives a letter from a woman admirer who signs herself Alice R., and who makes an appointment with him in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. The novelist and Alice R. start out to keep the appointment. As a stranger passes the apartment house of Mr. and Mrs. Crabb, the latter flirts with him; whereupon Mr. Crabb who has seen the action, sets out with his wife to make an example of the stranger. Meanwhile, Alice R. has arrived at the park with the novelist. Mr. Crabb has a fight with the stranger and is knocked down for his pains. The Crabbs continue on and go for a stroll in the park. The novelist mistakes the wife of Mr. Crabb for Alice R. and speaks to her. Mrs. Crabb in the meantime has been flirting with another man and her husband goes for a policeman. The novelist and Mrs. Crabb chat for a few moments and then the latter suddenly leaves him on seeing her husband in the distance. Alice R., who has been taking a glass of soda, leaves the fountain and comes upon the novelist. The latter is doubly surprised to meet her. Mr. and Mrs. Crabb become separated and Mr. Crabb mistakes Alice R. for his wife. Several amusing situations follow in rapid succession, in which Mr. Crabb is nearly arrested. Husband and wife return home, while the novelist again meets Alice R. and tells her that she was the inspiration for his novel.—Moving Picture World synopsis