- A selfish lover breaks off his engagement when his sweetheart is crippled in an accident.
- Penelope Blair suffers an accident, which, to all appearances, leaves her lame for life. In addition to this trial her sweetheart, Rollin Abbott, comes to break off his engagement with her, considering the unfortunate predicament of Penelope, in the neighboring place, beyond the garden wall of the next country place where Penelope, in her invalid chair, lounges away the lazy afternoons in solitude, comes one day, Henry Brent, a bachelor of middle age, who imagines that life holds nothing for him. He sits himself down in the shade and wraps himself in the selfish smoke of his own fragrant cigar. Happily he has a singularly intelligent dog that enterprisingly invades Penelope's garden. As a caprice to amuse herself, and break loneliness, she tucks a quaint little note in the dog's collar. When the animal eventually returns to its master, he picks up the note he sees in the collar and curiously reads it. Then he becomes interested and looks over the wall and finally introduces himself. From that time forward his interest grows apace and finally ripens into love. The clear air and the open life of the country restores Penelope's beauty, while exercise brings back her health. One day a horse and a strange rider dash by her up a country lane, when the saddle turns and the rider is dragged by the stirrup. Penelope, forgetting her own weakness, runs to see if she can be of assistance, and is astonished to recognize her former sweetheart. He is now an invalid, and convalescent, some weeks later, having remained at the farm as the guest of Penelope's aunt. He once again picks up the sentimental thread, sounds the music of the old refrain, and proposes once again. While deeply resenting the injury already done her, she reluctantly half consents. At this very moment she hears a low moan and turning, discovers Brent, the faithful bachelor who has come pleasantly into her life, has overheard all and is heartbroken by the shattering of his own hopes as he attempts to steal away unobserved. This brings her to a realizing better sense that she is herself mistaken and she proceeds to correct herself before the astonished and discomfited Rollin can push his suit, or seal it with a kiss. She tells the man who once repudiated her, that she can never be his. She rushes after Brent, and finds him bowed with grief. She touches him; he unbends: the understanding between them needs no mere words for its definition.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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