- The wife of a neglected scientist seeks companionship, only to have her husband become jealous. The wife is driven from her home and her son is estranged from her. The boy grows up and leads a reckless life, but reforms and helps his family reunite.—scsu1975
- Andrew Gregg is a scientist owning a mansion situated in the midst of a large estate. He is by nature morose and irritable, and his young wife, Rose, is saddened by his outbursts of ill-temper. Her only happiness she finds in caring for her three-year-old son, Ned. Rose's craving for friendship soon leads to an intimate acquaintanceship with John Hardin. Gradually their friendship ripens into love. Gregg is always surrounded by three grim-visaged old scientists, his only companions. One day while Rose is visiting Hardin in the latter's library he declares his love for her. Gregg, suspicious, has followed his wife to Hardin's home and sees the scene through the window. He does not wait to see that Rose tells Hardin his request is impossible, to see her gently but firmly discourage Hardin's affection. Later, when Gregg meets Hardin in the scientist's home, a terrific fight ensues, and Rose is driven from home by her infuriated husband. Gregg retains possession of the child, Ned. Rose flees to her only relative, an uncle owning a tavern in a neighboring village. Years later Rose still remains at the tavern, having never returned to the mansion. Her only happiness is derived through friendly visits from Hardin, who has always remained steadfast despite Rose's refusals to accept his love. Ned, the son, is now grown to manhood. Gregg has developed into an irascible old man, and the old home is known as the Mansion of Sobs. Repentant over Rose's absence, Gregg works upon an elixir, which, in his state of weakened mentality, he imagines will prolong his life. Ned, the son, has fallen in love with Isabel, Hardin's ward. Ned, who has never looked upon his mother since infancy, takes Isabel to the tavern run by Rose, his intentions being wrong. Through the timely interference of Hardin, Ned's plans are thwarted and Rose meets her son face to face for the first time in twenty years. Ned, broken-hearted over the realization of what he was about to do, agrees to marry Isabel. On the night when the young folks are married, old Gregg wrecks his laboratory in a wild fury. At the same time gay wedding bells announce that Ned and Isabel are man and wife. The young people persuade Rose and Hardin to visit the gloomy old home once more. Rose, trembling with a vague fear, ascends to her room to find Gregg, half-dead, clutching at her own portrait. Then she realizes that nothing but bitter regret has filled the years of the old man in longing for her. She nurses him back to health and freely forgives, and the young wedded couple is there to bring happiness to the old home. Hardin, thankful, too, at last to see love brought to the woman he has always loved, returns alone to his library.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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