The old keeper of the lighthouse and his daughter have lived together peacefully year after year tending the lights on St. David's Island. The old man has come to believe that his daughter's after life will be spent near to him when she marries John West. Little they dream that the ways of a woman's love must follow the dictates of her heart and when she steals away from the lighthouse and marries another man sadness falls upon those two who are left behind. Six months later Jeannette bids her husband good-bye as he goes on a fishing voyage. The great ship never comes back, her heart grows weary of waiting and she returns to her old home. The dawn of a new hope is just about to break into bloom in the heart of John West when the lost husband is rescued from a lonely island and is brought back to his wife.