The Lesson is a 1917 American silent comedy drama film directed by Charles Giblyn and starring Constance Talmadge, Tom Moore, and Walter Hiers.

[1] As described in a film magazine review,[2] Helen Drayton, bored with her small town sweetheart, elopes with an architect from the city.

She supports herself secretly by doing interior decorating.

When she finds that he has been unfaithful, she leaves him, secures a divorce, and marries her former sweetheart who has also come to the city.

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