In Paris Madame Vernier discovers that her husband has been having an affair with the dancer Lilette. On the advice of her friend Eva, she decides to have a flirtation of her own and encounters Marcel Douzet, a handsome but poor bookbinder. To conceal her identity from him, she uses a false name and pretends to be a maid. This leads to an encounter where she has to pretend to be her own servant. Ultimately, she chooses to return to her husband.