At an evening party, a young lady invited to play at the piano, removes a ring of great value and puts it upon a table near her. Another guest, seeing her movement, steals the ring and hides it in her bodice. The lady, not finding her ring, suspects a chambermaid, who has been in the salon. She protests her innocence, and the kleptomaniac becoming afraid, slips the stolen ring into the servant’s pocket, who, found in possession of the jewel, is immediately taken into custody. Six months after, the servant leaves the prison and comes back to her home to see her husband and child. But the pitiless husband turns her away. To see her child she is compelled to wait for him on his way to school or come in the night to kiss him through the garden gate. She is employed by a woodcutter’s wife and she gives her address to the child. Soon after, the husband of the unhappy servant receives a letter proving his wife’s innocence. Luckily, the child has kept his mother’s address and in haste the husband brings her home.