Miss Laura Sawyer plays very effectively the part of the sailor's wife in this heart-touching picture, which was suggested by Elizabeth Stewart Phelps's "The Madonna of the Tubs." She is also ably supported. It is a seaside story of fisherfolk. There are some delightful pictures of a Maine harbor and of the sea, although it cannot be said that the scenes in which the dory is shown adrift are all quite as effective as possible; they are good, however. The only other criticism is that the first scene might have been more happily placed a bit later in the picture: it prepared us for one of the lesser threads of the story. The sailor, after a causeless quarrel, left for a fishing trip without saying goodbye to his wife. In a fog his dory was separated from the ship and he was reported as dead. It was summer when he went out; it is Christmas when he reaches home. His coming is unexpected and brings great joy. It is a well designed picture and Miss Sawyer's acting makes it very effective. - The Moving Picture World, December 16, 1911
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