 Upon returning home from an evening spent losing at poker , George Brown swears off gambling forever . However , his friend Bigelow convinces him to secretly continue attending the weekly poker game and to tell his wife Mary that he has been admitted to the Sons of the Morning , a fraternal lodge , to explain his absences . When George talks in his sleep , she becomes suspicious and has her cousin Freddie Dewdrop follow him , allowing her to learn the truth . Together with the wives of the other poker players , she enacts a plan to end the gambling . Freddie and the members of his Bible study group dress up as police officers and raid the game . The gamblers ' wives then arrive , and the police leave the men to be scolded , purportedly in place of being arrested . As the film ends , the Browns reconcile . 
