- A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is disastrous until she abandons him and later reappears incognito as a tutored and sophisticated woman.
- While on a hunting trip, wealthy young Jack (Owen Moore) accidentally shots pretty mountain girl Mercy (Mary Pickford). He falls in love with the rough girl, marries her, and fervently attempts to refine her. The results are disastrous and an embarrassed Mercy returns to her mountain home, but she enrolls herself in a school for young women. Much to Jack's delight, she triumphantly returns as a refined, perfectly elegant wife.—Pamela Short
- Weary of the shallowness and artificiality of social life, Jack Darnton decides to go on a hunting trip as far from civilization and tangos as possible. But after three days of solitude and loneliness, he is almost willing to exchange the silent woods for a return of the old gaieties, when an accident restores interest to his new life. He doesn't know how he came to shoot so low, but the next moment a pathetic little scream tells him he has hurt a human. He runs to the spot and finds Mercy, a girl of the adjacent mountain settlement, with an ugly wound in her arm. There is something so charming about her stoic courage that Jack's heart goes out to her and never quite returns. From that moment the society lion courts the simple mountain maid, and despite her protestations that she is "not ezzackly his kin'," and that she "isn't eddicated enough to be his wife," he gets her promise. Somehow the news travels back to Jack's metropolitan circle, and his excruciatingly-cultured father becomes terribly annoyed at the idea of his son marrying a girl of Mercy's caste. The next day he appear on the scene to prevent the folly, and has a politely indignant interview with Mercy, who merely defies her prospective father-in-law, and after attempting to commit suicide with a bulletless gun, she marries Jack. Then comes heartbreak and disillusionment. Jack brings her back to his velvet and gilt, where her backwoods manners and dress do not make her popular. Manicured, jeweled fingers are pointed at her; scornful, derisive glances meet her wistful eyes; and the laughter she provokes descends upon Jack. In time she divines that he regrets his act, and she writes to her father to come for her. Her father takes her away from the world of sham, and only after she returns to the peaceful simplicity of her mountains that she realizes that she loves Jack more than she fears his people's scorn. She decided to go to school and educate herself up to his plane. Her father takes her to the best seminary he could find, but here, also, her outlandish garb and uncouth demeanor are ridiculed, until she heroically rescues a schoolmate from fire, winning her admiration and the others' respect. The two become fast friends. Mercy progresses rapidly with her studies, develops a more refined taste in dress, and her chum invites her to spend the Christmas holidays in her home, where she introduces Mercy to her brother and Mercy recognizes Jack, whose sister had registered in school under an assumed name. Jack thinks his sister's friend looks familiar, but her transformation was so great that he could not place her. Mercy confides the whole surprising truth to her chum/sister-in-law, and the two hatch a plan for Mercy to wear the simple old gingham gown she'd been wearing when she made her first ludicrous entrance into Jack's social world. Jack recognizes his wife, and Mercy's husband falls in love with her again.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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