 Dick Maxwell, a young man from Sydney, decides to move to the country for his health and gets a job as book keeper on Waroonga Station, near Orange, New South Wales.During his farewell dinner he becomes drunk and winds up getting married at a marriage shop to Tilly Farmfield, "a young woman of doubtful character".After the ceremony, his friend Bob Lambert rescues Dick from Tilly as they arrive at the Night Birds' Club.