- Young Dudley Kent falls in love with Grace Vaughan and leaves his wife for her. The two are very happy until Kent learns that his young son has died. He blames Grace for "luring" him away from his family and leaves her. Alone and broke, Grace is tricked into working at a "sporting house" run by madam Marie D'Arcy. Desperate to escape her circumstances, she meets a young man who she believes can rescue her from her predicament. He eventually does, but complications ensue.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Grace Vaughan falls in love with Dudley Kent, a married man, and a divorce follows, after which he and Grace leave for England. On the boat they meet John Hargrove, a lecturer, and his wife. Mrs. Hargrove, recognizing Grace, tries to befriend her, realizing that the girl is certain to meet with sorrow, but Grace does not accept her kindness in the spirit in which it is offered. For a year Grace and Kent are happy. But Kent never forgets his little son, to whom he has been passionately devoted, and he becomes frantic at receiving a cablegram announcing the death of the boy. He denounces Grace for having lured him away from family and respectability, and she leaves him at once. In the days that follow Grace tries in vain to find employment. Exhausted, she is resting on a park bench, when a motherly-looking woman comes to her assistance and takes her home with her. Grace then discovers that she has been taken to a questionable house. She pleads in vain with Marie d'Arcy, the keeper of the place, to release her. She implores Willard Ashbrook, who visits the house, to take her away; he does so. He gives her a card to Dr. Blackwell, head of a hospital where he has influence, and she obtains a post as nurse. After three years of ministering to humanity she is declared by Dr. Blackwell to be his most efficient nurse. To her is assigned the case of Stuart Brinsley, a young American millionaire who is ill with typhoid fever. So pleased is his mother with Grace that she prevails upon her to accompany them back to America to care for her son on the voyage. Stuart and Grace fall in love, and Stuart proposes marriage. Mrs. Brinsley is conservative, and believes that no woman, having erred can rise again, and Grace, after a discussion with her, is afraid to tell Stuart the truth about her past life. Just before the marriage, Willard Ashbrook calls on Stuart, and being shown a picture of Grace is in a quandary as to whether he should tell her history. The marriage ceremony is performed. After three years of wedded life there is not a cloud upon their happiness except the fact that they have no children. Grace and Mrs. Brinsley are members of a civic improvement society. At one of its meetings the speaker announced is unable to be present, and his place on the program is taken by the well-known lecturer, John Hargrove. When he is making a dramatic pause in his speech, his eyes happen to meet Grace's. From this moment Grace is in an agony of suspense for fear he will recognize her at the reception following the lecture, or at the dinner to which Mrs. Brinsley invites him after that. She denies that she has ever seen him before. Finally, unable to bear the suspense, she confesses and asks him to keep her secret, which he promises to do. Her conscience assails her, however, when she finds that the hope of herself and her husband is about to be realized, and that they are to have a child. Hargrove tells her she can no longer consider herself alone, but must think of the little waiting soul to come. She can bring it into the world free, strong, courageous, by telling the truth, or she can bring it into the world predisposed to deceit, crippled by her sin. Mother love is now awakened, and she confesses to her husband her past relations with Dudley Kent, and the strange circumstances by which she came under Marie d'Arcy's roof. Stuart tells her that he has known it all along but that he had believed it would make her happier if he seemed not to know. Then she tells him of her other secret and the two are at last truly happy in anticipation of the little waiting soul.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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