terry becomes jealous when amarilly starts hanging out with gordon, and he breaks off the engagement. gordon offers amarilly a job with his wealthy and snobbish aunt, mrs. phillips (ida waterman). when the neighborhood is quarantined after a breakout of scarlet fever, mrs. phillips decides to take the time to teach amarilly high class manners in a "pygmalion"-like experiment. however, once she discovers her nephew has fallen in love with amarilly, she turns against her. mrs. phillips tries to humiliate amarilly by inviting her family over for a social party.