Daisies (1914)

City gent Rupert goes to the country for his vacation. He meets Elsie in a field of daisies, he proposes, and they are married. A few years later they drift apart and Ruper becomes enamored of another woman. With unctuous courtesy, each day at the florist's he orders his wife an expensive bouquet. Joe, a poor fellow, comes to the florist's to get his girl a cheap bouquet of daisies. Rupert, a city man, goes to the country for his vacation. There he meets Elsie in a field of daisies. He proposes to her and they are married. A few years later they drift apart. Rupert becomes enamored of a woman. With unctuous courtesy, each day at the florist's he orders his wife an expensive bouquet. Joe, a poor fellow, goes to the florist's to get his girl a cheap bouquet of daisies. By mistake the roses are delivered to the poor girl. The wife, discouraged and about to leave her husband, writes a note to that effect. The daisies arrive; she recalls the old love and dresses in her old dress, pinning the daisies on her breast. Rupert is ruined by a panic in Wall Street. When the woman he fancies calls on him at his office in the afternoon he tells her. She scorned him. Maddened, he goes home and finds the note. He is in despair. His wife enters, finds him with a revolver, and rushes to him. He tells her, then they again enact the scene of their betrothal, with the simple bunch of daisies as the silent witness.

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