Arundel is an ambitious professor who is working on a book on the evolution of the female.
The professor has drastically changed in this time and he has given up his career, vesting all his attention on his wife and daughter.
Being desperate, she loses the letter which Godowski later finds and uses to blackmail Rose.
Carey who is unable to accept this news decides to end his life.
Both their lives are for a time one of loneliness but they are reunited when Doris falls seriously ill.