Disillusioned by romance and the old maid methods of a mid-western city school, young Jinny Craig is revitalized when she goes to a small town in New Mexico where she takes a teaching position and soon finds herself in love and in hot water. There is the dependent but trustful Mrs. Minger who becomes her housekeeper and smooths her home life; there is the protection of a handsome neighbor against a persistent prowler; and there are the skirmishes she must settle between the town's Irish and Mexican factions and her scrappy pupils. For all of this, the story is slow, but has a pleasant surfacing at the level of the women's popular magazines.