Young Englishman Peter Waverton loves his fiancee Beatrice Dainton, but can't get Margaret Summers, with whom he had an affair eight years before, out of his mind. Peter's sister Lady Hurley broke up the Peter/Margaret affair by convincing Margaret, her maid, that Peter, who had traveled to the Continent on business, had actually abandoned her. However, Peter is shocked when Margaret accidentally runs into him in London shortly before his wedding is to take place. He's even more shocked when he sees who is accompanying her.—[email protected]

Peter Waverton is engaged to Beatrice, the orphan niece of his half-sister's (Mrs. Hurley) husband. He is quite a little older than the girl, but she adores him and he is deeply devoted to her. But again and again the memory of Margaret, the woman he loved and lost eight years ago, comes to him. Margaret had been governess at Mrs. Hurley's house. Mrs. Hurley discovered the love between her half brother and Margaret and decided to break up the affair, no matter by what means. Through her lawyer she manager to make it imperative that Peter should go to Europe, and intercepted the note of farewell and explanation that Peter wrote to Margaret. Mrs. Hurley led Margaret to believe that Peter had deserted her, and dismissed the girl from the house. On Peter's return from Europe, Mrs. Hurley answered his eager inquiries about Margaret's whereabouts by showing him faked-up pictures, letters, etc., which would lead him to believe that the girl had run off with some notorious crook. Peter put detectives on her trail, but it was all to no use. Mrs. Hurley did everything in her power to throw Beatrice and Peter together, the result being the present engagement. Returning from a fall at his fiancée's house, Peter brings two forlorn tramps into his house and wines and dines them, much to their astonishment. As the butler goes to let the tramps out, he finds a strange woman on the doorstep, who has lost her way in the fog. He brings her in, and so Margaret and Peter meet again after eight years. All is explained. Margaret tells Peter of their son, little Peter, who has been her joy in life. When Margaret goes out to work in the daytime, the housekeeper at her at her boarding house has cared for the little boy. Peter expresses his great desire to see his son. Peter insists upon Margaret's spending the night in the room to which the housekeeper takes her. In the morning Peter sends one of the tramps he befriended the night before to bring little Peter to him. Margaret encourages the child to be friendly with its father. The tramp takes Peter out for a walk on a wild hunt for rabbits, and the whole household gets upset, thinking the child is lost. Beatrice and Mrs. Hurley come to take Peter to a reception. Mrs. Hurley is furious to see Margaret with Peter and the whole story of Mrs. Hurley's treachery is told to Beatrice. Little Peter is brought home and Beatrice learns that he is Peter's son. Beatrice gives up Peter, although she knows he still loves her, because both she and Peter realize that his place is with Margaret and their son.—Moving Picture World synopsis