- Awaiting her sweetheart's arrival, Ann Donnelson picks up a newspaper and reads an article showing the number of divorces and questioning whether matrimony is a failure. Earl arrives, and Ann shows him the story. He is impressed. They go to have dinner with married friends. The husband is late and they go to dinner without him. The wife is very angry and when husband finally arrives there is a bitter quarrel in which words and more tangible things fly. It ends by the wife putting on her hat and coat and "going home to mother." Taking Ann home, they discuss the matrimonial situation and evolve a plan. They are both very happy as sweethearts. They hear so much about the sorrows of the married that they think it foolhardy to chance it. They will be sweethearts all their lives, he to live his life and she to live hers. Like many other couples they decide that they will not restrict each other's liberties. Other men may call on Ann. and Earl can enjoy the society of other girls, according to their agreement. The next afternoon. Earl sees Ann walking with another fellow, John Dearborn, whom he knows to be a formidable rival. He is jealous, notwithstanding his agreement. Several days later Ann perceives Earl about to enter a moving picture show with a girl whom Earl had been "sweet on" before she eclipsed her. When he calls that evening she is cold and distant but refuses to tell him what is the matter. Earl, somewhat peeved over having seen her with John Dearborn, is not over sweet and his stay is short and disagreeable. The following afternoon Ann and another girl, sitting at the table, sees Earl and a strange girl enter. He does not see her and Ann's jealousy rises to the boiling point. Furious, she goes to his table, and, much to his astonishment, reproaches him for his "horridness." He reminds her that this was their agreement, but logic means nothing to Ann's feminine feelings. There is a lively oral combat on the spot, Earl's girl companion runs away fearing for her hair. Ann goes out crying and Earl tries vainly to induce Ann's companion to intercede for him with Ann. That evening Earl calls. His card is refused. He pushes past the servant and enters the sitting room where Ann is sitting, her tears dropping damply on the presents he has given her and which she has contemplated sending back to him. Recriminations follow and then comes the bliss of reconciliation. Ann's widowed chum is the mother of a little girl. The mother is taken ill and Ann nurses her with Earl aiding in the evening. Both, very fond of the little girl, attend it affectionately. One evening later Earl calls on a married couple. The husband hasn't come home yet and Earl is treated to a demonstration of what married life may be. When husband enters the wife rushes to kiss him, the baby toddles to his lap, while Wifie runs for his slippers and house coat. Earl goes home later to a cold, lonely apartment, can't find his slippers and feels forlorn and unloved generally. There comes to him a vision of the happy home he has just left and a longing possesses him. Before him comes the vision of Ann and himself and between them the sweetest baby boys. Their faces are together in happiness. Ann is a visitor to the same happy household the next evening. She sees a variation of the same joy of fatherhood and motherhood and fondles the little boy, longing for one of her own. Returning to her home there appears at her bedside a vision of the dear unborn baby which stretches out to her its appealing arms. Impulsively she reaches for it, to press the darling to her, but it fades into nothingness and she clasps the thin air. Ann's sister is dying. In her last moments she asks Ann and Earl to cherish and care for her orphaned baby. The cold fallacies of platonicism vanish in the vision of the dream child, their own flesh and blood, who is to be a little playmate of the orphaned one. Slowly the dream child draws their hands together and there they stand in consciousness of the cosmic call. Into each other's arms they creep impulsively.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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