- Stage-struck Georgianna Lane leaves her country home for the bright lights of the city. Once there, however, she fails miserably and contemplates suicide. Meanwhile, Hope Van Alen, the wife of wealthy Anthony Van Alen, is suffering from drug addiction and decides to enter Dr. Pope's sanitarium for a cure. Coincidence brings the couple into contact with Georgianna, who bears a striking resemblance to Hope. To deceive their friends in Hope's absence, the Van Alens enlist Georgianna's acting abilities in impersonating Hope. The switch is made and Georgianna performs so well that Anthony's nephew Gerald Fownes finds himself falling in love with her. When the real hope suddenly returns, cured, Gerald is bewildered. Explanations are made and Gerald joins Georgianna, who has contentedly returned to her country home.
- Georgianna Lane, convinced that she has dramatic talent, goes to the city and vainly haunts the managers' offices. Finally she reaches the end of her resources, and is in despair. A bottle of poison attracts her attention, but she decides first to have a glimpse of life in its most luxurious aspect, and goes forth to find it. Hope Van Alen is a drug addict. Her husband discovers it, and they try to think of a way out. At a fashionable restaurant, where they have gone to talk it over, Anthony suggests that she go in a sanitarium, but Hope says her friends have already begun to suspect. At this moment a young girl enters, shabbily dressed but remarkable like Hope. A sudden thought strikes the Van Alens, and they ask the girl to lunch with them and unfold their plan, which is that in the eyes of society Georgianna impersonate Hope while the latter undergoes treatment. It is agreed, and Georgianna enters upon her duties. Gerald Fownes, Anthony's nephew, frequently asked by Anthony to escort his wife to various entertainments, is growing to love her. He is indignant at Anthony's apparent neglect of his wife, and the climax comes when Dr. Mache, who had sold drugs to Hope, appears and threatens Georgianna, compelling her to come to his office. Her maid summons Gerald and Anthony to the rescue. At this moment Anthony is called to the phone by Dr. Pope at the sanitarium regarding Hope, and hurries out, leaving Gerald to rescue his wife from Dr. Mache. Gerald is astounded at this conduct, and when he meets Georgianna coming out of the doctor's office he is unable to conceal his anxiety and love for her. To save her further distress there seems nothing for him to do but to go away, which he prepares to do. He goes to the Van Alens to bid them good-bye. Anthony suspects, and accuses Gerald of having fallen in love with his wife, which Gerald admits. To his consternation, Anthony only smiles, saying, "That is all right." Hope, who has returned, and is her old self again, hears and understands. Gerald sees an unaccountable change in her when she comes forward, and is bewildered, until they explain about Georgianna. He leaves at once for the farm, where Georgianna has concluded she belongs, and all are happy.
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