- A platonic experiment as to how a young couple should make love fails when it ceases to be platonic.
- Horace Plato, an employer, without fully realizing it, is in love with Florence Lloyd, his stenographer, and she in her turn loves him, yet she realizes that the winning of him in the way she desires will be a delicate and difficult matter. To enliven this situation, Charlie Denton, another wealthy young man, is also in love with Florence and urges his suit with persistency. Plato awakens to the danger in young Denton's suit, becomes jealous and determines upon a quixotic measure. He informs his stenographer that she must marry him immediately, explaining the while that they can occupy different apartments in his home and that they will demonstrate to the world at large that Platonic love can be brought to a practical issue. Florence, believing that once married to him she can win him over in a practical way, agrees. They are married. In the scenes that follow, with Plato endeavoring to make proselytes of his friends and servants and his pretty young wife exercising all her charms to inveigle him away from the doctrines of Plato, we have some of the most amusing and cleverly wrought situations in the play. His friends pretend conversion to escape argument and the servants to continue in their position. Shortly following the marriage, Horace and his wife receive an invitation to a house party at a hunting lodge in the mountains and social obligations demand that they accept it. They arrive at the lodge to be followed by numerous other guests. Before night comes on Horace is threatened with the necessity of occupying the same room with his wife. He is horrified, frightened and angry. He rushes out of the house, preferring to spend the night on the lawn rather than break his ideals. Florence is discouraged. It seems the last straw in the camel's back, and with the hope of winning her husband gone, she is on the verge of eloping with Denton. Horace learns of this and the knowledge brings a conflict of emotions never before experienced by the foolish young benedict. In the end he decided that anything is better than the loss of his wife, and when Florence at the last moment refuses to abide by the elopement plan and returns, he takes her to his arms with just the thoughts and feelings of a normal man over-riding all else. The conversion is complete. Platonic love is relegated to the scrap heap so far as this lineal descendant of the philosopher is concerned.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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