- Laura Bedford marries poor taxi driver Jim Maberne, and her chum Claribel marries wealthy Richard Smith-Blanton. When the two women accidentally meet sometime later, Laura eagerly accepts Claribel's invitation to an artists' ball. Because of her poverty, Laura is obliged to obtain a ball gown on approval. At the ball she repulses the advances of Smith-Blanton. When her children ruin the dress the next day, Laura takes her husband's savings to pay for it. Jim discovers the loss and orders Laura out. When, later, he comes upon her struggling against Smith-Blanton, Claribel tells him the whole story. Jim gives Smith-Blanton a beating and takes his wife home.—AFI
- Laura Bedford and Claribel Hayes work in the same modiste's shop. Claribel is the more outgoing of the two, and attracts Jim Maherne, a taxi driver, with whom Laura is secretly in love. However, Claribel marries Richard Smith-Blanton, a wealthy divorced man. Jim goes to Laura for consolation, and the two get married, and live on a tight budget. A few years later, Laura has twins. Claribel gives Laura a solid silver punch bowl as a gift. Laura and Claribel meet again. Claribel is neglected by her husband. So she sets out to make Laura jealous by showing the luxurious life she leads with Smith-Blanton. After a trying day with the twins, and Jim's unromantic attitude, Laura gives in to her jealousy. On her way home, Laura is almost run down by Smith-Blanton's car. He drives her home, and becomes infatuated with her. Claribel invites Laura to an artists' ball. Laura appeals to Jim for money to buy a suitable dress, but he refuses. He tells his wife that if she wants to run around with Claribel, she will have to do it in her everyday clothes. Laura gets a gown and fur coat on credit, intending to wear it to the party and return it the following day. Laura is excited at the party, and catches the attention of one of the masters of ceremony, who is wearing a costume of Satan. She is surprised to see Smith-Blanton, who has not given her his real name. He pursues her, and when he takes her slipper, he tries to exchange it for a kiss. But Laura flees without the slipper. Smith-Blanton leaves the party, and enters Jim's taxi, with each not knowing who the other is. Smith-Blanton tosses the slipper to Jim as a tip, and Jim carries it home. In the morning, Laura finds that her twins have cut up her party dress. In desperation, she opens a piggy bank in which Jim is saving their money, and pays for the dress. Soon, Jim arrives home with the news that he is going to buy a taxi with the money he has saved. Laura confesses what she has done. Jim then discovers the mate to the slipper that Smith-Blanton had given him. Laura is driven out of the apartment, and seeks refuge at Claribel's home. Claribel is not at home, but Smith-Blanton tries to force himself on Laura. Even the arrival of Claribel does not discourage Smith-Blanton. Meanwhile, Jim feels remorse for his wife's grief, and recalls the address of the man who had given him the slipper. He arrives at Smith-Blanton's home just in time to save Laura and punish Smith-Blanton with a beating. Reunited, Laura and Jim return to their apartment, where they decide to sell the silver punch bowl and buy a taxi.
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