A wealthy girl's banished mother returns as the seamstress at her daughter's wedding.

Richard does not appreciate his lovely caring wife, Marian Lorimer. Soon his philandering causes her to fall in love with someone else, she leaves him a note telling him that she is running off with the man. At the last moment, thinking of her young daughter, she changes her mind, but Richard refuses to take her back and divorces her, gaining custody of their child. Marian goes West and changes her name to Mrs. Hatch, but years later returns when she sees her daughter's picture in the paper in a marriage announcement. She poses as a dressmaker to see her daughter but when she is revealed as Marian by Richard and his new wife, she is forced to leave. In the end, however, Marian and her child are reunited and Richard and his new wife finally are humbled.—Pamela Short

Marian Lorimer, an affectionate and impulsive young wife, palls upon her coarse-natured husband, and he turns to the waiting arms of Madge Creighton, whose charms appeal to him more than the delicate qualities of his wife. A baby girl comes to the home of the Lorimers, and for a time this new tie unites husband and wife more closely, but soon Lorimer becomes again entangled in the wiles of the other woman. Jealous and angry, the heartsore Marian listens to the false counsel of the husband's trusted friend, and consents to elope, telling Lorimer in a note that she has gone with a man who respects her more than does her husband. At the gate Marian turns back, drawn from the abyss by the love of her child, and dismisses her suitor forever. But Lorimer has already read the message of farewell, and refuses to admit her. On the strength of the fatal note, Lorimer obtains a divorce, with the custody of the child, and marries the other woman. Marian goes west, taking the name of "Mrs. Hatch," and supporting herself meagerly by the income of a little store. Years pass, and one day she reads in the paper that the child whose baby image she still treasures in her broken heart has attained womanhood and love, and is about to be married. Taking her little all, the longing mother journeys back east, buys a magnificent wedding gift, and begs her former husband to grant her but one glimpse of her daughter. The pitiful plea is denied, and only through the kindly schemes of the old nurse, Agnes, is Marian able to see her child again. As a modiste, bearing the wedding gown of her daughter, Marian creeps into her old home, and sees and touches again her loved one, without the latter's knowledge of their tender relationship. Seeing a framed picture of her daughter, Marian yields to temptation, and conceals it in her dress, but the picture drops to the floor, and her former husband and his wife discover her presence and learn her identity. They threaten Marian with arrest for theft, and rather than expose her daughter to scandal, Marian steals away, humiliated and despairing. How the other woman is justly punished, the cruel husband, mother and child at last united is dramatically unfolded in this photoplay.—Moving Picture World synopsis