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Betty Pendleton, daughter of Cyrus Pendleton, a retired banker, makes her debut in society. Bob Blair, her girlhood lover, and her brother, Jack, note her transition from an immature girl to a woman of charm. The first man to fall under ...See moreBetty Pendleton, daughter of Cyrus Pendleton, a retired banker, makes her debut in society. Bob Blair, her girlhood lover, and her brother, Jack, note her transition from an immature girl to a woman of charm. The first man to fall under her bewitching glance is Hugh Forrest. Bob becomes jealous, but overcomes it a few days later, when Betty dismisses Forrest from her thoughts. Stanley Gates, one of Bob's friends, has promised to marry Katherine Gray. Betty casts her covetous glance over Stanley and he neglects Katherine to make love to her. But he is discarded when Betty tires of him. Bob brings about a reconciliation between Stanley and Katherine and begins to woo Betty again. Despite her brother Jack's warning that she is too young to think seriously of marriage, Bob proposes to Betty and she consents to marry him. Bob, who has taken his medical degree, now starts out to establish himself in his profession, but patients don't come to him very rapidly. So, on the advice of Mr. Pendleton, he locates in a new field, where he acquires a large practice. Betty has promised to go to him as soon as he sends for her. But no sooner has Bob left town when Betty meets Count Casalone, an Italian nobleman. She soon forgets her promises to Bob and pledges herself to marry the Count. She receives a letter from Bob telling her that he has provided a home for her and is anxiously awaiting her arrival. Betty reads the letter to the Count and the two have a good laugh over it. Then Betty writes Bob informing him of her engagement to Count Casalone. Bob is heartbroken when he receives the letter. Meanwhile Betty has amused herself sufficiently at the Count's expense and begins to tire of him. In driving through the park one day she sees Stanley Gates and his young wife and proceeds to engage him in a flirtation. That night Jack writes a letter to Bob, telling him that, despite the fact of Stanley's being happily married, Betty still has the power to enchant him. Later Bob meets Betty at the Van Aldyn reception and she greets him as of old. But Bob cuts her cold. Bob notes that Stanley is nervous, and that Betty cannot keep her eyes off him. Later Betty leads Stanley to the conservatory, where he proclaims his love. She yields to his embraces and he rains passionate kisses upon her face and hair. Bob is a witness of their love-making, and unable to contain himself any longer, he bursts in upon them and tells Stanley that his wife is ill. Stanley is completely dazed by this information and hurries away. Bob denounces her and then leads her back to the ballroom, where Stanley, meanwhile, has found his wife waiting for him. Suddenly realizing the meanness of his conduct he takes his wife home, followed by Bob, who, later in the evening, upbraids Stanley for his behavior. Stanley decides to break off his relations with Betty. After returning home Betty broods over Bob's denunciation of her as a silly social butterfly. Bob, who is about to leave to resume his practice at his own home, receives a call from Mr. Pendleton, who informs him that Betty has been taken seriously ill and implores him to come and attend her at once. Accordingly, he hurries to the Pendleton home, where he attends Betty with considerable medical skill and succeeds in saving her life. During her convalescence Betty repents of her past flirtations. Bob how makes a discovery. His love for Betty has by no means vanished forever, as he had supposed it had, and for fear that he may again fall a victim to her fascinating wiles, he turns her case over to another physician and returns home, where he finds himself besieged on all sides by his waiting patients. On returning to his office one evening he finds Betty awaiting him there. But she is now very meek and a different sort of a girl than she had been formerly. Bob soon realizes that his love for her is fully reciprocated, for she tells him that she loves him with all her heart. A reconciliation is the result. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less