In the Interwar Toledo of 1919, Perry Parkhurst is a rich bachelor whose romance with Betty Medill, a local debutante of similar background, is in question after the couple fights when Perry presents Betty with a marriage license. Dispirited by the conflict, Perry takes a cab downtown and runs into his friend, Baily, who convinces him to come up to his hotel room and drink champagne with their other friend Martin. As the trio gets increasingly drunk, Perry is probed for his plans for the evening. That night there is a party at the home of the Tates’ — a wealthy family who sit on top of the Toledo social hierarchy — and a costume ball put on by the Townsend family at the local gentlemen’s club. While Perry at first proclaims his retirement from Toledo social life, he is eventually convinced to find a costume so that he can attend the Townsend ball. To this end, he descends upon the local costume shop, where the shopkeeper insists that there is hardly anything left given the occasion. She does, however, present him with a realistic camel costume that requires two wearers, one to stand in the front of the suit as the camel’s head, and the other to crouch in the back and act as the animal’s hind legs. Perry convinces his cab driver to occupy the hind section of the costume. He is too drunk to remember the party’s address, and instead tells the driver to pull over whenever he sees something that looks like a costume ball. The driver does just so, and the duo get into the costume and trot inside the Tate residence where their presence causes a disruption. Realizing their mistake, the duo attempt to flee from the residence, but before they are able to do so Perry is unmasked by Mr. Tate, who good-humoredly suggests they attend the Townsend ball together. When they arrive at the club, Perry notices Betty, who is in brown-face, and is dressed up as a snake charmer. Betty flirts with the camel, and though she doesn't know who is inside, she suspects that it is a bachelor from the East Coast. As the party winds down, Betty and Perry are awarded first-place prizes for their costumes and are made to participate in a faux-marriage ceremony to commemorate the occasion. The ceremony is ministered by Jumbo, a waiter at the club who is indeed a real minister at his church. Jumbo requests a piece of paper to act as the marriage license and a ring. Perry produces the marriage license he had presented to Betty earlier that day, and the cab driver’s own wedding ring. After the faux bride and groom say “I do,” Jumbo realizes that the paper he has been handed is a real marriage license, meaning the ceremony was in fact a legal officiation of marriage between Betty and Perry. Betty is outraged that she has been tricked into marrying Perry, but after the cab driver suggests that he has just as much claim to her as Perry since she wore his wedding ring, she capitulates and proclaims her love for Perry.