- After building a financial empire, Frederick Mallery feels chained to his wife Winnie, who stood by him during the years of poverty. As a result, he offers Warren Woods, a down-and-out former playboy, $50,000 to seduce Winnie, so that he will have an excuse for a divorce. Warren works hard at his job, but instead of weakening Winnie's devotion to Frederick, he himself falls in love with her. Needing the money, however, he boasts to Frederick of having seduced Winnie. Suddenly, Frederick becomes jealous, and after calling off the deal with Warren, he goes to Winnie and tells her that he loves her.—Pamela Short
- Frederick Mallery has risen by his own efforts from poverty to a place of power in the world. He thinks that the wife, who was good enough to share the privations of the lean years, is now not brilliant enough socially. The glamour of the social world has cast a spell upon him and he considers himself a real "lady killer." As a matter of fact the women of his "set" tolerate Mallery because of his wealth, though they ridicule him among themselves. Mallery hasn't the moral courage to tell his wife that he has outgrown her in his opinion, and that he would appreciate it if she would become interested in some other man, leaving him free. Mallery comes across a man named Warren Woods, who asserts that he has lost all sense of honor. To Woods, Mallery makes an offer of $50,000 if he will win Mrs. Mallery's affections, thus freeing the magnate. The bargain is struck and Mallery introduces Woods to his wife as a friend. Mallery pretends to be too busy to take his wife anywhere and gets Woods to accompany her to receptions and dinners. Woods finds that he is becoming infatuated with the woman, but she treats him simply with the courtesy due a friend of her husband. He realizes that she loves her husband too well ever to listen to anyone else. His respect for Mrs. Mallery finally conquers his baser nature and he plans to reunite husband and wife. He accepts the check from Mallery, telling him that if he will call at his home at a late hour that night he will find his wife in a compromising position. Woods meets Mallery just outside his home and tells him the truth about his wife's goodness and tears up the $50,000 check. He scores the husband as being unworthy of his wife and says he should beg her forgiveness for his villainous scheme on his bended knee. Mallery is so humiliated by this tirade from the man who had boasted of his own lack of honor, that he is speechless and incapable of action. After Woods has gone he goes quietly to his wife's apartment, where he finds her lovingly sewing on some baby garments. Mallery is overcome by the touching sight and silently goes in and folds his wife in his arms.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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