His Second Wife (1913)
Jack Gordon, a dissipated young widower, announces at a gay dinner party that by the advice of his doctor he must go to his country place for a rest. They try to dissuade him from leaving, but he is determined. Not even the entreaties of Flossie, a very attractive young woman, will change his resolve. Gordon leaves his little daughter, Ethel, with his aunt and takes his departure. While out riding one clear winter day, Jack picks up a little girl who has fallen and hurt her knee just as she was coming from the schoolhouse, and he carries her home on his horse. Ellice, the beautiful young school teacher, accompanies the child home. The next day, Jack, riding in his speedy auto, meets Ellice and takes her for a ride. As they are going through a woodland road the machine breaks down. A terrific snowstorm forces them to seek shelter in a nearby hunting lodge belonging to Gordon. Ellice is full of fear at being alone with a comparative stranger, and finding that the telephone is out of order, she rushes alone into the storm. She is driven here and there by the merciless wind and is almost frozen to death when she finally comes back to the lodge and falls down exhausted outside the door. Jack carries her in and after fixing a room for her on the second floor, sends her there to rest. On the following day the villagers criticize her so much that Jack impulsively marries her to give her the protection of his name, but he finds her efforts to please a source of irritation, and showing it, causes her to treat him with disdain. Her indifferent attitude now leads him to fall desperately in love with her: and when Flossie, his former associate of the gay, reckless days, calls upon him, he dismisses her curtly. At first Ellice will not hearken to his love. It is only through the medium of little Ethel, that she finally surrenders herself to the anxious heart of the man she loves.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Ralph Ince | Director |
| Eliza G. Harral | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Anita Stewart | |
| E.K. Lincoln | |
| Katharine Lewis | |
| Mrs. E.M. Kimball |
