- Jerome, a rising young artist, tired of his wife's frivolity, demands that she devote more time to her home and baby. Fifine persists in choosing the company of her gay friends, thus the relations of the couple become strained and Jerome with their baby, departs for Italy, to forget his shattered happiness. After several years of wandering, Jerome returns to Paris. Leon, a mutual friend of Jerome and the wife, induces Fifine to attend the mask ball, where the separated husband and wife are brought together. Although a reconciliation does not take place, Fifine is humbled and chastened and surreptitiously enters her husband's home in an effort to see the little one she has not caressed for years; at sight of the child she realizes that her husband and child make up her happiness.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- Jerome, a French artist, tired of his wife's frivolity, demands that she give up her frivolous ways and devote more time to her home. She at first promises to comply with his request, but being visited by a party of her gay, young friends, she cannot resist the temptation end joins them for a merry dinner. Jerome's patience becomes overstrained, and he decided to take his little baby girl and depart for Italy in an effort to forget his shattered happiness. Fifine, the gaiety loving wife, returns to the studio and finds a note from Jerome, in which he tells her he is gone for good, and that his lawyer will supply her with money to live. Awakening to her true situation, Fifine realizes, "We never know the worth of things until they're gone; we never know the depths of love until it's flown." After several years of wandering, Jerome returns to Paris. Leon, a mutual friend of Jerome and his wife, calls upon Jerome shortly after his return and asks him to attend a masque ball. Gaining Jerome's consent, he hurries to the unhappy wife and arranges to take her to the ball, with the hope of meeting Jerome and effecting a reconciliation. During the evening, Leon presents Fifine to Jerome and being enmasque, Jerome does not recognize the wife whom he had left a few years before. Fifine, unable to restrain her pent-up feelings, and with the hope that she can win Jerome back, discloses her identity. The former husband, however, refuses to have anything to do with her and leaves the ball, returning immediately to his home. Fifine, humbled and chastened, determines to call at Jerome's studio and make a final appeal, realizing that her husband and child make up her happiness. Arriving at Jerome's new home, Fifine enters unnoticed and makes her way to the room where her little child lies asleep on a couch. Jerome enters the room just as she is embracing little one and orders her to leave immediately. Falling on her knees, she begs her husband to give her one more chance. Jerome relents, and the couple starts life anew.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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