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Dorothy, flighty little country girl, dissatisfied with humdrum country life. longs for the gaiety of the cities. She meets a man from city on vacation; he makes cavalier love to her. She is interested and becomes infatuated. Mother warns ...See moreDorothy, flighty little country girl, dissatisfied with humdrum country life. longs for the gaiety of the cities. She meets a man from city on vacation; he makes cavalier love to her. She is interested and becomes infatuated. Mother warns her against him and begs her to be contented in country life. Dorothy is petulant. She lies in a hammock under the trees, and wishes the city man would come and take her away from the life she hates. Dorothy falls asleep in the hammock. The city man appears and finds her asleep. He kisses her awake and makes more violent love to her. He urges her to flee with him to the city by recounting the pleasures he can give her. He promises they will be married. She agrees to go, gets her things together and they start. Arriving at the city he takes her to a boarding house and pretends to arrange marriage in the morning. Then the fake marriage and his subsequent tiring of her and finally the desertion and her discovery that it was all a false marriage. Her heart breaks and she tries to find work, but all in vain. Suicide seems her only hope, but she is urged by a kindly landlady to return home to mother. This she does, but her mother refuses to receive her and she is turned away. Going to a small bridge over a stream or lake, she prays and starts to jump in, but the scene fades out and into her falling out of the hammock. Scared to death she jumps up crying. The city man appears through the trees and accosts her, but she shrinks from him in horror and runs to her mother and cries on her shoulder, resolving never to disobey her or be discontented again. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less