Married for Money, Swayed by Love

Larry Nell wants a wife in name to put between himself and his family. Coral Baker takes the work because she needs the money. She has no family anyone in his circle has heard of, and the job is to be Mrs. Nell, available at any hour for whatever his mood turns out to require. They marry during his older brother's engagement banquet, in front of the city's wealthy families. The marriage is public knowledge by the next morning, along with a story going round that she pulled him into a kiss in the middle of a public street. The two of them play a couple in front of other people and share a house away from them. The contract is amended more than once while this is going on, and the terms written to keep them at a distance stop describing how they actually live.