Upon Mary's
arrival, she finds that her father is soon to descend upon the Palm Beach
estate with all his committee members, plus a Congressman who holds the
Presidential nomination in his power. 
When her sympathetic Uncle Hannibal arrives ahead of the entourage, Mary tearfully confides her secret marriage to him.
Horace Smith swoops in triumphantly full of plans for the following weeks, assuming that his ready-made hostess will comply with his every wish.
Feeling
once again trapped, Mary blurts out that she is married to a cowboy and
plans to join her new husband in Montana almost immediately.
But her courage is short-lived. When she sees how her news has appalled and crushed her father, she relents, agreeing to stay and dutifully perform until Horace has clinched the Presidential nomination.
