The Longer Voyage (1915)

Mrs. Chesham learns that a serious operation will be necessary to save her life. Dr. Hartey, her physician, urges her to tell her husband. But George Chesham is ambitious and his wife doesn't want to worry him. About the time of Mrs. Chesham's illness, George is invited on a yachting cruise by Ponsonby, a millionaire broker, whose friendship means much to him. George asks his wife to go, but she refuses without giving him the real reason. On the cruise Ponsonby learns that Chesham is a married man. When he twits him Chesham tells him his wife is a clinging vine and a hindrance. Ponsonby tells him that the only girl he ever loved refused him. She was Isabelle Dallas. Chesham then knows that he has her for a wife. He goes home with a new appreciation of her. But she dies in his arms.

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