The story of a girl who rebelled against the "double standard" of morals, and demanded that women should have as much right to expect virtue in the man they are going to marry as a man expects of a woman. From original film advertisement, 'Cumberland Argus & Fruitgrowers Gazette', 4th January 1919.—Kevin Dudeney

Frankie Ware, an American author living in Paris, eases the dying moments of a young girl named Alice Ellery, who has just given birth to an illegitimate child. Frankie adopts the child and returns to New York, where she writes a book questioning the one-sided social laws that make this a man's world. Her publisher, Malcolm Gaskell, falls in love with her, and the two become engaged, but Frankie's rival, Lione Brune, attempts to destroy the romance by jealously suggesting that "Kiddie" is Frankie's child. Angrily, Malcom rushes to Frankie's apartment and demands to know the truth, whereupon Frankie, noticing the resemblance between Kiddie and Malcolm, asks him if he ever met Alice Ellery in Paris. When he betrays his own guilt, Frankie breaks the engagement and later marries David Powell, who has loved her all along.—AFI