Mrs. Dane's Danger

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• 1916
• 0 hr 40 mins
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David Dane, a rich man, much older than his wife, Alice, who is somewhat of a butterfly, is content that she amuse herself in society. They understand each other perfectly, but their attitude is misunderstood by others, who imagine them mismated and scent a flirtation between Mrs. Dane and her former admirer. Rex Gordon, man-about-town and gambler. Alice likes him, but when he attempts to make advances to her, she resents it and their friendship ceases until he apologizes and she forgives him. Gordon is deeply indebted to Simon Corey, an unscrupulous money-lender, and urged on by threats of exposure, enters Alice's home at night with the intention of stealing her valuable pearl necklace. At the very same time, Jasper Dicey, a "down-and-out" broker, enters for the same purpose, after having fed his hatred for Dane, who had once refused him a loan, by arousing jealous suspicions of his wife, by anonymous letters. Dane returns unexpectedly to confront the two thieves and his sleeping wife, in her bedroom. In a frenzy of rage, Dane is about to shoot Gordon on the spot when Dicey steps forward and explains the true cause of Gordon's presence there. Mrs. Dane awakens and, horrified, begs her husband not to become a murderer, and with a sigh of relief. Dane permits the two thieves to leave unmolested. After the two rascals have gone, a happy reconciliation follows between Dane and his wife, thus Mrs. Dane's danger but cements stronger the love and faith between herself and her husband.