John Sprague, a promising young country minister, wins the love and hand of a simple country girl, Margaret. Her father does not look favorably on the match owing to Sprague's rather advanced ideas in social relations and pleasure. He had previously encouraged an amateur theatrical performance in which Margaret had made a hit as Juliet. Shortly after the young pair are married and moved to the city, where John becomes the rector of a fashionable church. Time goes on and with it comes success for both. Margaret changes from her simple country ways, and becomes somewhat of a society butterfly. Their home is brightened by the arrival of a baby girl. Though the wife continues to have a big love for her husband, she pursues social pleasure. Then comes financial difficulties: and the trouble brings all the wife's latent good to the surface. In her desire to help her husband she remembers her success as an amateur performer, and determines to get a position on the stage, thereby earning enough to cover their losses. She secures a place and the indications are that she is going to make good. She has kept it a secret from her husband. But he finds out and then there is a misunderstanding; he mistakes her motives. But Margaret faces sterner problems and worries not required by her husband. She comes to realize it; realizes that even financial failure cannot justify the forsaking of home and loved ones. Her intentions were good, however. In the end Sprague comforts his wife in a great sorrow, the loss of her father, and leads her from the room to a better and fuller realization of her wifely duties in the future.
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