A good picture by the French company with a tense, though rather unpleasant situation, very effectively conducted and strongly acted. This situation keeps the interest fairly divided between the two leading characters and two minor ones, turning the searchlight of attention first on one and then on another. It is the convincing way in which these characters react on each other that makes the offering noteworthy. They are the owner of a beautiful house and estate, his wife, her maid and the maid's lover. The owner, who has been frightened, shoots into the dark and wounds the maid's lover who was on his way across the lawn. The outcome of this accident brings the four people into the closest relationship, quite breaks down the formal inequality between master or mistress and servant. The two bearing the same burden are on equal terms as sisters. The scene making, photography and all that goes to make a finished production are of high order. - The Moving Picture World, August 17, 1912
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