
Mark Sabre hires young Effie Bright to keep his snobbish, cold-hearted wife Mabel company while he goes off to war. When he returns home from the front wounded, he finds that Mabel has fired Effie, who shows up at Mark's door with her baby, having no place to go. Mark takes her in, but Mabel leaves him when the town shuns him for what they believe is going on with Mark and Effie. Matters are further complicated when Effie, driven to desperation, commits an unspeakable act that results in Mark having a nervous breakdown--and then things get worse.

as Mark Sabre

as Hapgood

as Twyning

as Harold Twyning

as Reverend Sebastian Fortune

as Lord Tybar

as Humpo

as Old Bright

as The Coroner

as Nona, Lady Tybar

as Mabel

as Effie Bright

as High Jinks

as Low Jinks

as Miss Winifred

as Mrs. Perch

as Young Perch