A story of illicit love which seems to be one of those dispensations of some overruling power that makes individuals helpless to stay the current of events. In this film there is a difference from many pictures of a similar character in that the man who wins the wife's love leaves her alone after the death of the husband. Just what the author tried to show here is a question somewhat difficult to decide. Possibly that was the irony of fate to which the title refers. Perhaps not. It must be confessed, however, that the story is not quite clear upon that point. Moreover, the outcome of the film is not natural and as it disappears one has a dissatisfied feeling which seems rather to increase as one thinks of the pictures. It is too subtle to be described, yet it is strong enough to make itself painfully apparent. - The Moving Picture World, August 13, 1910
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