The Moving Finger (1912)
Stumbling into the squalor of her miserable tenement room the woman, a wretched victim of drink and dissipation, sinks down at the table and lights the half-burned candle. Slowly the memories of other days return and we see her happy with her husband in their humble cottage. Then one morning a motor car stops at the gate and the man enters for a drink of water. Their eyes meet, and the man goes away with a smile of satisfaction. Returning next day he finds her alone, points out her humble surroundings, paints a glowing picture of the gay city life and begs her to come with him. She hesitates, and is lost. That evening her husband returns and finds a note on the table saying she could stand the poverty no longer and has gone with one who can give her the luxuries she craves. In the mad swirl of the city the woman is very happy, then one night the man enters and she discovers the gloves of the other woman in his pocket. Furiously she denounces his perfidy and he leaves her. Repentance has come and the woman writes her husband, begging forgiveness and asking him to take her back. "You have made your bed; lie in it," is the answer that is returned her and the scene slowly fades to the misery of the tenement room. With every hope crushed the wretched woman slowly shreds the letter, smiles bitterly, puts out the sputtering candle and sinks down upon her cot as the light fades into blackness.
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