[1] Burns Mantle summarized the plot as follows in his 1920-21 Best Plays annual: "Irene Martin of Erie, Pa., comes to New York in search of work and a broader life.

Falling in with the wrong crowd, she gives up the fight to be respectable and for seven years permits a traction magnate to maintain an apartment for her and help her care for the folks at home.

By this time she is tired of the life she is living and eager to return to Erie and respectability, but her sweetheart finds her out.

She convinces him, however, that her reformation is complete and he is willing to overlook her past, but her traction magnate succeeds in planting a doubt in her mind that she will ever be able to stand Erie and its group after the magnificence and freedom she has been used to in New York.

[3] The 1931 movie Possessed, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, in an adaptation of the play.