The story based upon the novel The Rise of Jennie Cushing by Mary Watts and stars Broadway's Elsie Ferguson.

[1][2][3] As described in a film magazine,[4] when the police authorities learn of the type of people Jennie Cushing (Ferguson) lives with, they send her to a reformatory.

When Donelson Meigs (Dexter), a famous artist, is painting Miss Gerrard's picture, he falls in love with the maid, who accompanies her mistress to each sitting.

After Jennie discovers that Donelson has learned of her having been in a reformatory, she leaves him and goes to America, where she starts a home for young children of the slums.

The Chicago Board of Censors required cuts of the intertitles "Marie's story was simple, etc.