Mark Sabre hires young Effie Bright to keep his snobbish, cold-hearted wife Mabel company while he goes off to war. When he returns home from the front wounded, he finds that Mabel has fired Effie, who shows up at Mark's door with her baby, having no place to go. Mark takes her in, but Mabel leaves him when the town shuns him for what they believe is going on with Mark and Effie. Matters are further complicated when Effie, driven to desperation, commits an unspeakable act that results in Mark having a nervous breakdown--and then things get worse.
Percy Marmont
as Mark Sabre
Arthur Metcalfe
as Hapgood
Sidney Herbert
as Twyning
Wallace Kolb
as Harold Twyning
Riley Hatch
as Reverend Sebastian Fortune
Raymond Bloomer
as Lord Tybar
Leslie King
as Humpo
George Pelzer
as Old Bright
Jim Tenbrooke
as The Coroner
Ann Forrest
as Nona, Lady Tybar
Margaret Fielding
as Mabel
Gladys Leslie
as Effie Bright
