Bought and Paid For (1922)

Jimmy Gilley is engaged to Fanny Blaine. Jimmy would like to live in a more luxurious style, so he and Fanny urge her sister Virginia to marry wealthy Robert Stafford although she doesn't love him. She does so and the couple is happy for a time. But Robert begins drinking and eventually mistreats Virginia until she is forced to leave him. Robert hopes for her return and quits drinking. But pride and misunderstanding block the way for renewed romance.