Romantic Suzanne, a reader of novels, sighs for a lover. Out walking, she sees the grocer's clerk kissing the maid, and on every side, scenes of billing and cooing. She is sick, because she has no sweetheart. Her grandmother laughs at her. The maid tells her to say her prayers to St. Catherine for nine days and on the tenth day she will get a lover. Suzanne erects a statue in her room and prays. The tenth day Suzanne arises, anxious to meet her lover, but the first man she sees is old and ugly. Meanwhile the grandmother stands off the rent collector. He leaves the house and is struck on the head by the statue of St. Catherine, which Suzanne casts from the window in a rage. Furious, the collector gets a dispossession and orders his nephew to serve it. He enters the parlor and Suzanne recognizes him as the handsome young man who has taken her eyes some weeks previous. They love and the nephew brings Suzanne to his uncle, where her pretty face soon brings him around.