Eve Balfour is a minister's daughter with modern principles, including one against marriage. She explains this to Thomas H. MacDonald, who offers that honorable state, and is downhearted at her response. His father says they should take a trip to Italy as friends, where circumstances will change her mind. When he dies of typhus on the trip, she still has not; and years later the daughter suffers from her natural state.
The copy this was drawn from was an edited version found in the Russian archives, where it was doubtless edited to deprecate western culture. The result is a bit brisk, but there aren't many titles, nor are they needed; motives can easily be inferred from the visual cues. Given the racy idea, it's a sedately performed adaptation from a 1880s novel, done in modern dress -- although there is a lot of passionate kissing.
That may have disappointed contemporary audiences. It was burlesqued the following year in THE WOMAN WHO DID 'EM, and remade in 1925 by Benjamin Christiansen. Both of the later films are missing.
The copy this was drawn from was an edited version found in the Russian archives, where it was doubtless edited to deprecate western culture. The result is a bit brisk, but there aren't many titles, nor are they needed; motives can easily be inferred from the visual cues. Given the racy idea, it's a sedately performed adaptation from a 1880s novel, done in modern dress -- although there is a lot of passionate kissing.
That may have disappointed contemporary audiences. It was burlesqued the following year in THE WOMAN WHO DID 'EM, and remade in 1925 by Benjamin Christiansen. Both of the later films are missing.
