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Grant Keller, a wealthy young artist and society leader, unable to find a model to his liking, advertises for one. Daisy Edwards, who has lost her position as a salesgirl, applies and is accepted. Grant and Daisy all in love with each ...See moreGrant Keller, a wealthy young artist and society leader, unable to find a model to his liking, advertises for one. Daisy Edwards, who has lost her position as a salesgirl, applies and is accepted. Grant and Daisy all in love with each other, but Grant becomes engaged to a girl of his own social set, and Daisy bravely releases him. An uncle leaves Daisy three thousand dollars, and by hard work, aided by her small fortune, she becomes a successful miniature painter, patronized by society. Bruce Livingston, who calls at her studio for his sister's portrait, falls in love with the attractive artist. and when they become engaged he tells his friend Grant Keller, of his fiancée. Grant calls on Daisy and demands that she tell Livingston that she was formerly his model and in love with him. She protests that she had given Keller his chance without a murmur, and why will he not give her hers? Grant will not promise, and after considerable mental struggle, he decides that it is his duty as Livingston's friend, to tell him the truth. Bruce is maddened with jealousy, refuses to listen to Daisy's pleadings and leaves her. The girl is broken-hearted. She seeks forgetfulness in a whirl of false gaiety. At the end of a year she drowns herself. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less