Apparently dear old Dad likes nothing more than to take his housekeepers for all they are worth and then throw them out on the street when they become pregnant. She is all ready for her confirmation day party and is stunned when she discovers that Elisabeth is leaving. While she questions her father as to why this is all happening, Elisabeth runs from the building. Thymian takes after her but is too late to catch her but is just in time to run into the creepy assistant pharmacist, Meinert Fritz Rasp.
Meinert, like his boss, has some less than savory hobbies which include photographs of naked women. He also has a weakness for virginal young girls and Thymian just so happens to fit the bill perfectly. The party kicks off and everyone is having a fine time until there is a knock at the door. Several man have come bearing a litter with a body. Pulling back the blanket, Thymian reveals the face of Elisabeth who has thrown herself into the river and drowned.
She runs back inside to find her father cozying up to the newest housekeeper, Meta Franziska Kinz. Thymian faints and is put to bed by her aunt with a glass of wine and a plate of food. Stunned, Thymian is restless and unable to sleep. Coming down to the pharmacy she confides in Meinert that she feels so alone. Meinert promises to stand by her and to tell her the truth of why Elisabeth killed herself.
Thymian swoons again and is carried off to her bed by Meinert, who then proceeds to take advantage of her. Nine months later Thymian gives birth to a baby girl. For her part, Thymian refuses to marry him as she does not love him.
Stymied by this, the family now must decide what is to be done with Thymian and her baby. The child is given to a local midwife and Thymian is sent to a reform school. This school for wayward girls is run by a tyrannical woman Valeska Gert and her nine foot tall, bald assistant Andrews Engelmann.
