Sparks fly and wills clash when stubborn Grandpa Pruitt meets a proud contessa, first sparring over flowers and then over matters of the heart.

Grandpa Pruitt is smitten with Mrs. Kinneman, an attractive widow from Illinois, while Alison falls for Jerry, a boy next door type from Iowa.

Penney and Pokey secretly leave home as they feel they are preventing Michael's marriage to a fashionable stewardess. A frantic search for the missing girls ensues.