When Love Dies (1912)

Anne Lisa is a young wife whose interest is centered in her husband and child. One evening, accompanied by a friend, the married pair visit a certain restaurant. where the leader of the orchestra is Cesara Marzati. The latter and Anne, a few days later, meet in the street. Cesara follows her to her home. Another visit is paid to the café, when the musician conveys a note to his charmer. A call follows. She yields to his embraces. Recovering, she bids him leave. Her husband finds a letter addressed to his wife. He gives it to her, and is told that it is a communication from an old girl friend. When he has gone, Anne rips open the envelope and reads that if she fails to call upon the writer he will visit her. She goes. Rejecting husband and home, Anne joins Cesara, and they race to the station, nearly knocking down the husband en route. The husband, missing the usual greeting from his wife, enters his wife's room. A few clothes negligently tossed about tell their own story, which is corroborated by a note which Anne has left. The child returns home with her nurse, and going up to her father, who is silently weeping, attempts to wipe his eyes. The man vows that the child shall his only care in the future. The scene changes to Paris, where Anne finds that the man for whom she gave up all has grown tired of her. A letter comes fur him, and she finds that it is from someone of the name of Mary arranging a meeting. Anne confronts Cesara, who keeps the meeting, and in the company of Mary visits a low café. Anne waits up for Cesara, but as he has not arrived she sets out to find him. While she has gone, however, the man returns home, packs up his belongings, and deserts her. She is forced to rent an attic. - Her sobs attract the attention of her neighbor, a dancer, who is instrumental in securing for Anne a situation in a theater. One night the occupants of a box are struck with her, and one of them, a Count, invites her to supper after the performance is over. She accepts. At the restaurant there is a Viennese orchestra, which is under the control of Cesara. The latter sees and is seen by Anne, who behaves in the most abandoned manner. Cesara once again seeks to possess Anne. Now it is the woman's turn, and she spurns him. Meanwhile, the deserted husband has been urged by a friend to seek distraction in Paris. When they arrive, Anne has become the Count's mistress, and the parties concerned in this story gather together in a certain café. Here the husband sees the depths to which his wife has sunk, and leaves. Anne has recognized her husband and, following him to his hotel, she begs forgiveness. It is sternly refused, and the photograph of her child, which she picks up, is torn from her hands. Then she in expiation seeks death.