A Biograph life drama. Unquestionably such things actually occur in real life, though it is hard to credit them. Perhaps it is possible in some ways to excuse the action of the man in becoming infatuated with the girl whom he meets. She is pretty enough to attract anyone. Yet that he should desert his family for another is not right, and the tearful attempts of his people to win him back are disturbing. The note which the child writes is very touching and later exerts a powerful influence. Perhaps the most dramatic feature of all is the sudden entrance of another man, the friend, and the representation of a woman's fickleness in giving up the one who has followed her and is even then ready to elope with her, for another. The lesson is plain and might be heeded by men who are more or less under the influence of a similar spell. The final scene, where the father is embracing his boy, with the mother looking on from the staircase, is touching and arouses many tender emotions. There is no fault to find with the photographic quality and the acting is quite in keeping with the recent development of this company's work in the silent drama. It would be difficult to suggest an improvement. – The Moving Picture World, July 24, 1909
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