Augie and Isolde Poole, five years childless, decide to adopt a baby, giving their friends, the Peppers, as references. When the agency investigator calls, Dick Pepper makes amorous advances to her, and things go otherwise amiss for the applicants. Then Augie Poole becomes personally involved with the investigator, who announces herself pregnant and goes off to have the baby. She contrives its placement in the Poole house. Isolde learns Augie is its father, and packs to leave. Matters are resolved when it develops that she herself is about to become a mother.