Mrs. Watts, Mrs. Carson, and Aimee Slocum are residents of a small Southern town named Victory. Lily Daw is a well known resident of this town, as well. Lily is intellectually disabled and must be watched and taken care of by members of the town. Mrs. Watts and Mrs. Carson gather up money between themselves to send Lily to an institute in Ellisville, Mississippi, where she will be taken care of. They go around the town trying to find Lily to tell her the news. A shopkeeper tells them he saw Lily earlier and that she said she was going to get married. They finally find Lily at her home and tell her they have arranged for her to go to Ellisville. She says she does not want to go and would rather be married. Eventually, Aimee convinces her to go and they head to the train station immediately. The entire town is at the station, waiting to see Lily go in her pretty dress. At the platform, a man with red hair and a xylophone in a case comes up to Aimee and asks if she has seen a girl named Lily. Aimee realizes this is the man who Lily said she was going to marry. She fetches Lily from the train and gathers Mrs. Watts and Mrs. Carson to meet the man. Mrs. Carson calls her husband, who is a baptist preacher, and Lily and the man are married right then and there.