Paul Verdayne, wealthy English nobleman in his early twenties, is caught embracing the parson's daughter.

Critics also made personal attacks on Glyn, saying she was complacent, her writing immature, and she was "indifferent to her own reputation".

[7] The book's subject matter made it a specific target of the Boston-based Watch and Ward Society's anti-vice campaigns.

Three Weeks was first made into an American motion picture in 1914 [it], directed by Perry N. Vekroff and starring Madlaine Traverse and George C.

[9] It was adapted again in the 1924 version, made by Samuel Goldwyn, directed by Alan Crosland under the supervision of Glyn,[9] and starring Conrad Nagel and Aileen Pringle.