A celebrated portrait painter has just finished the picture of his pretty wife whose delicate state of health necessitates a quiet home life. In spite of his fondness for his wife he cannot hide the pleasure he finds in the company of one of her so-called friends, and one day as he starts out automobiling with this woman has wife is overcome and dies from heart shock and her little daughter is left with nothing but her mother’s memory to comfort her. Three months later the painter is the accepted suitor of his dead wife’s friend and on his easel her portrait has replaced the other which, at the request of the child, has been removed to her room. Shortly after their marriage, however, the painter discovers that his intended bride is a coquette and who afterwards breaks off their engagement. Disillusioned and angry, he snatches up a knife to destroy her portrait but a gentle touch stops him, and looking down he sees his daughter, who drawing aside the curtain covering the picture reveals the portrait of his dead wife. Hoping to bring back the remembrance of her mother to him she had changed the portraits earlier in the evening and had hidden to watch the result on her father. Her presence and the sight of the portrait adds the finishing stroke to the painter and with bitter self-reproaches he clasps the child in his arms and promises never again to forget his dead wife so easily.