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John Forbes and Mary Blake live in a boardinghouse and are pledged in their love. John, an ambitious man, meets his employer's daughter, Jennie Jeffreys; deciding to sacrifice ambition for true love, he jilts Mary and marries Jennie. Mary ...See moreJohn Forbes and Mary Blake live in a boardinghouse and are pledged in their love. John, an ambitious man, meets his employer's daughter, Jennie Jeffreys; deciding to sacrifice ambition for true love, he jilts Mary and marries Jennie. Mary marries, but in resignation, and in later years her daughter Nanette becomes stenographer in the plant of Jeffreys and Forbes. There she meets Philip Forbes, the son of her mother's old-time sweetheart, and they fall in love. John does not know of his son's love or the identity of Nanette. Neither does Nanette's mother realize the identity of Philip Forbes. John Forbes becomes enamored of Nanette, and because of his wife's death, the consequent loneliness, and the reflection of his spoiled life, makes a strong plea for her love. Nanette takes Philip to her home and introduces him to her mother. Realization of her own better teaching and the similarity of her daughter's love affair forces her to request that Nanette resign her position. In the interim John Forbes, at an opportune moment, confesses his love to Nanette and is overheard by Philip. In a rage, he attacks his father, just at the arrival of Nanette's mother, who recognizes John Forbes. There is a moment of tenseness; a breaking down of the two older people, while the young man claims his love for Nanette and takes the bewildered girl away, while Mary and John confront one another. The mother denounces Forbes and explains to him the awful endurance of her past life and leaves him. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less