Back to Eden
Directed by Robert ThornbyFeeling that the cost of living in the city is exorbitant, Miss Constance and her pretty niece, Grace, move to a small town to rent a little farm. They call at the local real estate agent's office and mistake Mr. Scott, a millionaire, and his son, Dick, for the agents. They question them regarding desirable property in the town. Miss Constance is a spinster about forty years of age, refined, lovable, and attractive. Mr. Scott is impressed with her charms. No more impressed, however, than Dick, who is won by the beauty of the pretty niece. Father and son pretend they are real estate agents and show the two new arrivals a lovely little cottage which they own. Miss Constance and Grace are delighted with the cottage and decide to move in at once. Mr. Scott makes many pretenses for calling upon Miss Constance. He pretends he will insist upon the rent being payed weekly, he to do the collecting. He takes flowers to her, which he himself plants in the garden. Dick loses no time either in ingratiating himself. Knowing that Grace likes chickens, he buys her some prize-winners. Neither father nor son know of each other's courting. Mr. Scott would not have Dick know for the world. He tells Miss Constance not to tell. Dick tells Grace the same thing. Mr. Scott buys a cow and drives it to the new "Eden." Miss Constance and Grace are delighted. When evening falls and twilight encompasses the little fire-lit cottage, the two Adamless Eves sit thinking of a very kind "real estate agent." And as they detect each other looking wistfully into the fire, they smile confidingly. While this is going on, two Eveless Adams sit in an elegant library playing checkers. They are so abstracted in thought they forget to make the moves. They too get to dreaming. Mr. Scott takes Miss Constance a fine Shepherd dog. He also takes the butter churner from her hand and gets to work making butter. Dick arrives with an Angora kitten for Grace. Dick sees the dog, which has run around the comer of the cottage. He runs after it and comes full upon his father. Both men laugh at each other. Invited to stay to supper, Mr. Scott's butler, waiting in the luxurious Scott dining-room, thinks, "It takes 'em an awful long time to collect their rents." At this time, a joyful party of four are pledging each other's health and happiness in four glasses of rich milk. After supper Mr. Scott and Miss Constance play chess. Dick and Grace look on. A misplay brings about a complication of hands. Dick reaches out to stop Grace. Mr. Scott somehow stops Miss Constance. A complete understanding results. Happily they decide that "Eden" was not meant to be Adamless.