Young Tom Weston romances Marie Bolton, who is the daughter of his boss, but the relationship doesn't last long because Tom finds out that she is engaged to another man, Jack Hillman. Marie dumps him. and an embittered Tom vows that from then on he will treat women the way Marie treated him. He keeps his promise, and as his reputation in the business world grows, so does his reputation as a ruthless womanizer. After he becomes wealthy, he decides to take his revenge on his former employer, James Bolton, and ruin him. However, things don't turn out exactly as he had envisioned.