- Henry Murray begins seeing an old flame but tells his wife that he's meeting Mr. Davey, a confirmed woman-hater. He accidentally mixes up notes to his wife and paramour, and his wife begins to suspect another woman.
- Though recently married Henry Murray pines to satisfy his vanity in a flirtation. He accordingly writes an old friend, Kate Davey, who is not aware of his marriage, makes an appointment and takes her out to dine. To make his absence easier to explain, he pretends to have a male friend, "Mr. Davey," whom he represents to be a lonely "woman-hater." Henry is continually getting messages from "the mysterious Mr. Davey," asking him to dine with him as he feels so blue. Henry at one time refuses to accept, but his wife, whose sympathies have been aroused at the thought of the lonely "Mr. Davey," persuades him to go. So Henry becomes a "martyr" and is soon enjoying himself wining and dining with Katie. Shortly afterwards, Henry's office telephone is out of order, so he sends two letters, one addressed to his wife and the other to Katie. A fatal error occurs when he gets the messages mixed. Katie learns Henry has a wife, while Mrs. Murray becomes suspicious of "Mr. Davey." When he meets Katie at the restaurant, he finds her with a strapping young man, whom she introduces very sweetly as her fiancé. That settles it for him and he goes home. His wife quietly shows him the message he sent her by mistake, reading, "Katie, please dine with me tonight, usual place, Henry." He is momentarily flustered, but soon recovers and, taking a pencil, shows her where the "mistake occurred." He crosses out the word Katie and replaces it with the word, "Davey." She is decidedly skeptical, and informs him she will believe the story if he will introduce her to "Mr. Davey." Henry desperately resolves that the only solution is to kill his "friend," so he pays a little visit to the local newspaper office, with the result that next morning his wife reads in the paper of the death of "H.W. Davey, the well-known woman-hater." Imploring his forgiveness for doubting his faithfulness, she caressingly endeavors to soothe him in his "grief" at loss of his friend.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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