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Street was noble, this was trivial. A young wife neglected by a husband w^ho loves her but is too busy to say so, becomes at length so overstrung that she rushes to an artist friend who suggests they go to Vienna together. She responds with delight (surely a far too sudden delight ; too complete a break of mood from the burning, unhappy resentment of a moment earlier?) and leaves to prepare. The husband who has followed in a taxi, sees the artist and points out that he is rich and the artist poor, and he would do well to leave his wife where she will have the things she needs. So it is he who meets her at the station and brings her home, where a curt note from the artist completes her humiliation. The husband has that night another meeting. This is, the young wife feels, just too much. She rushes from the room. After going to, and loathing the kind of night carbaret her friends frequent, she returns, fearing suddenly that her husband may have shot himself. But he has only awaited her in their bedroom and he wakes to her embrace. A carnival doll, however, turns reconciliation to deeper misunderstanding, and the young wife, making a last gesture, begins a flirtation wuth a boxer whom she had met at the carbaret. Her woman friend one day informs the husband that she has gone to the artist's rooms with the boxer. The artist has returned to find her there on the point of being forcibly raped by the young man, and torn his sketches of her from his easel. The boxer leaves, and the husband arrives. She tears off her dress and appears before him thus, unquestionably compromised. Divorce. But this very event clears the air, and the misunderstanding. They come together again, and decide to remarry.
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