His Mistake (1912)

• 47%
• 1912
• Drama
• Lloyd B. Carleton
• John Halliday
• Ormi Hawley
• Nancy Gale

Mary is the daughter of a well-to-do boarding-house keeper. Jim is a young man in fairly good circumstances. Lillian DeVere is a star playing a one-night stand town in which Mary's mother keeps the boarding-house. The parents are old friends of Lillian's and Mabel and John are her former pals and acquaintances. Jim and Mary are betrothed, he puts a ring on her finger. Lillian arrives at the boarding-house and asks for board, meets Jim, sees that there is no room at the table. Jim offers her his seat. Lillian being intensely interesting and fascinating, interests Jim, much to Mary's disgust. In the course of time Jim marries Lillian DeVere. Mary, alone in her bedroom, broken-hearted looks out of her window and watches the marriage ceremony between Jim and Lillian in the house next door, which he has rented as his future home. In the course of five years Lillian becomes tired of her domestic duties; a little child of four years annoys her so much she longs for the bright lights and the gaiety of her former companions. She dresses herself and meets her old sweetheart and friends for a dinner party, after which they go for an automobile ride to a country club. The chauffeur losing control of the auto, it overturns and Lillian is killed. In the meantime Mary, hearing Jim's child crying in the house next door, enters and finds that it is hungry, gets food and milk and feeds it. After Lillian's death Jim is trying to keep house for himself, but Mary steps in daily and attends to the housework and takes care of the child. Jim seeing this, realizes what he has missed in all these years and taking Mary in his arms all ends happily.