Between the Two of Them

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While competing for the ten thousand dollar prize play, George Gray, an author, will not permit his wife, Marjorie, who is really very talented, to assist him or make any suggestions. Realizing that he is not doing the plot justice, Marjorie interviews a dramatic critic and enlists his aid. A couple of "charitable" neighbors see her enter the critic's home alone, and scenting a scandal, consider it their duty to warn Gray. Thinking the anonymous warning preposterous, George tears it up, but later, finding an apparently compromising letter, is greatly disturbed. Doubts creep into his mind, and he engages the services of Steele, a detective, to watch Marjorie. That night she goes to the critic with the play finished according to her own ideas. Delighted with its great improvement, they talk enthusiastically over it and the detective, watching them, misconstrues the situation. Gray completes his play and sends it off, after which he receives the detective's report. He goes to Marjorie's room, where he bitterly denounces her and goes out of the house, without giving her a chance to defend herself. Several days afterwards Gray receives word from the publishers that they have accepted the "corrected version" of his play. He does not know what to make of it, as he knows nothing of any other version than his own. Gradually it dawns on him his wife must have something to do with it, and when he receives his check with his wife's manuscript, containing his name as author, he knows the truth. He now feels keenly their estrangement and becomes remorseful. On the opening night of the play, it proves a hit, and unable to stand the applause and congratulations, he does the only honorable thing. He publicly announces that credit for the authorship is entirely due his wife. Marjorie leaves the theater and hurries home, locking herself in her room. On Gray's humble return, she tells him through the locked door just what she thinks of him, then when he is thoroughly penitent, she permits him to enter.