- After divorcing her husband Kent, actress Anne Wetherall returns to the stage. Upon receiving a plea for help from childhood chum Nell Jerrold begging Anne to save Nell's daughter Betty from marrying Kent, the ex-Mrs. Wetherall decides to journey to the Jerrold's home in the town of Wheaton to investigate. Finding Betty defiantly determined to marry Kent, Anne decides that the only way to save the girl is to enslave her ex-husband with her charms and therefore win him back. The two women then enter into competition for Kent, Betty matching her freshness and beauty against Anne's mature accomplishments of grace and artfulness. Kent finally falls under Anne's spell, expressing repentance for previous shortcomings and proposing marriage. Anne accepts to save Betty, only to discover that she is still in love with her husband.
- Having divorced her husband, Kent Wetherall, Anne Wetherall returned to the stage. The last night of the season arrived and Thomas Holland, mutual friend of the Wetheralls, came to take Anne to an after-theater lunch. She confided in Holland that she had received from Nell Jerrold a request to save her daughter, Betty, from marrying Kent Wetherall. Nell Jerrold was Anne's girlhood chum, and Tom Holland was an intimate friend of all concerned. Holland advised Anne to go to Wheaton, the town where the Jerrolds lived and depend on circumstances that might arise to give her an opportunity to intervene between Kent and Betty. Anne interviewed Betty and found her defiant in her determination to marry the man she loved. Anne then resolved to enslave her ex-husband by her charms, and thereby win him back. Betty essayed to match her freshness and beauty against Anne's mature accomplishments of grace and artfulness. Kent fell under the spell of the woman he once called his wife. He declared his renewed love, expressed repentance for previous shortcomings, and asked Anne to marry him again. With victory in her grasp Anne resorted to a scheme of vengeance. She married Kent (intending to forthwith leave him) that he might be stopped, by legal means, from making any other woman his wife. Tom Holland had, meanwhile, pressed his own suit, begging Anne to marry him, but Anne, still abjectly enslaved by her love for Kent, begged Holland to abandon any hope of their marriage. In the brief time she had lived as Kent's wife, her husband's strange actions had aroused suspicions that finally led to the divorce. In the river that ran past their estate a houseboat occasionally appeared and Anne observed that when this craft disappeared Kent Wetherall always absented himself from home. She investigated and saw a woman bending over Kent as he lay in what was obviously a drunken stupor. Anne appealed to the courts and was divorced. This incident was explained within an hour after Anne had married a second time and while she was in the act of fleeing from Wheaton. The "woman in the case" proved to be the wife of a doctor who was conducting on a houseboat a sanitarium for the cure of alcoholic addicts, and Kent had been born with a craving for drink. When the woman of the houseboat explained, Anne hurried to her husband. Betty was a witness to the reunion and when Anne smiled in triumph at her rival, Betty declared, laughingly, "Kent and I fixed up a plot to win you back and you fell helpless into the trap."
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