In London, businessman Claude Dabney, who is in partnership with his father Cosgrove Dabney in the family's ladies' undergarments company, and widowed American socialite Crystal Wetherby, are engaged to be married. What neither Claude or Crystal knows is that the other is only marrying for money, Claude who needs Crystal's non-existent money to finance the struggling company, and Crystal who needs Claude's non-existent money to pay off her debts while continuing to live in a means to which she has now been accustomed. Crystal, from a humble background, made her way to Europe having won a contest, met big game hunter Wetherby, who became her first husband, on board the transatlantic sailing, he leaving her with all these debts upon his passing. Their situation becomes more complicated when Claude's brother, ne'er-do-well but good-hearted Raymond Dabney, is released from prison, he serving time for robbery. While Raymond's mother is on his side, his father and brother just want to get rid of him, they willing to pay him off to leave town and their lives for good, he holding out for a better deal than their offer. When Raymond meets Crystal, not knowing who she is let alone that she is Claude's fiancée, he falls in love with her at first sight. Although she wants nothing to do with him, he is able to infiltrate her life. The complication with Raymond entering the picture is ratcheted up a notch when he learns both about her debts and she being Claude's fiancée, he thus seemingly holding the trump cards in what happens with this collective.
—Huggo