The film is based on the play of the same name by Hubert Henry Davies and had been performed on Broadway in 1914 with Ferguson in the lead.

[1] As described in a contemporary film publication,[2] Valentine Moreland (MacLaren) has married her husband for money and jilted Geoffrey Sherwood (Powell).

He feels her rejection keenly, and his friend Tony Hewlitt (David) finds Geoffrey alone in his apartment drinking.

Miriam, abandoned by her husband and whose child had died from neglect, has been forced out on the street when her room's rent becomes overdue.

Valentine glances out the window and, seeing her husband John (Wellesley) entering the house, panics.