- When innocent country girl Paula Letchworth comes to the big city she foolishly allows herself to be influenced by her superficial friends while ignoring the wise counsel of Allen Cotter who truly cares for her. Paula's frivolous life leads her into a marriage with Lawrence Topham, a worthless louse who abuses her and squanders her money. Desperate, Paula offers to buy a divorce from Topham, and turns to Allen for the money. After Topham spends his fee, however, he refuses to go through with the deal, and Paula's invalid mother, unable to endure further cruelty to her daughter, shoots him. Paula and Allen both have reason to believe that the other is guilty of the murder, although the evidence points to suicide. Realizing that the lovers' suspicions are keeping them apart, Paula's mother confesses to the shooting shortly before her death, thus eliminating the barriers between Allen and Paula.—Pamela Short
- Paula Letchworth, a girl of 18 or 20, has grown up in an atmosphere where no hint of a new womanhood has ever entered. The men are of the chivalrous, protecting kind; the women, wonderful beings to be cherished, loved and protected. The only shadow in Paula's life is that her mother is an invalid. The trustee of the estate is Allen Cotter, a rising young lawyer. Allen has come to love Paula. She is not wholly indifferent to him. :She meets Lawrence Topham, a crafty society man, who with facile talk of the new world of woman's equality with man, charms her. Blinded by the glitter of the new life, Paula weds him. Once married, Lawrence gains control of the estate and begins to tread the primrose path. At home Lawrence taunts Paula about Allen and flies into an apparently jealous rage, accusing her of being false to him in order to blind her to his own ways of life. So bitter become their quarrels that Paula half confesses to Allen. A short time later a crisis comes, as Lawrence has hypothecated all the remaining stock and bonds of the estate, and placed the money in one big gamble in Wall Street. A panic comes and he cannot recover himself. In a drunken frenzy he tells Paula that everything is gone. She tells her husband that she will go to Allen. During the night an idea comes to Lawrence, perhaps Paula can get money from Alien sufficient to cover the margins on his gamble. He goes to her, and though she listens disdainfully, she tells him, "Don't worry, I will get the money from Allen for you." Allen, who has come in response to Paula's appeal, enters just in time to hear this, and supposes that Paula has betrayed him in the interests of Lawrence. He asks how much they want, and after writing a check leaves the apartment. That evening, sure of a great fortune, Lawrence determines to desert Paula. He writes a note to her. As he writes, a shot is fired end Lawrence slips from his chair dead. Allen arrives as the shot is fired. Paula rushes in just as Allen enters, and seeing a pistol near the door of the library, where it has fallen from the hand of the assassin, each thinks that the other has done the deed. In another room, as others rush into the library, Allen and Paula stand by the wheel chair of the mother. He tells Paula that he will always love and care for her. She is horrified that this slayer of her husband, as she supposes, should talk of marrying her. He notices her reluctance and says, "I know you were driven to it, but no one shall ever know." By a superhuman effort the mother makes them understand that it was she who did it. Allen says, "No, it was suicide." And as suicide it is entered upon the police blotter. And now comes womanhood's real awakening. Paula no longer yearns for a new freedom. Her thoughts turn longingly to the old homestead, where the daughters of the Letchworths have ever been the objects of the tender care of true men. She goes to Allen's arms.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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