Deciding to take a long-delayed rest, Jack Cave, a successful young businessman, leaves his aged mother and goes to a country place, where he is welcomed by Fenton, the hotelkeeper, and his daughter Lila. Having had very little experience with women, Jack quickly falls in love with Lila. Shortly afterward they are married and Jack learns to his displeasure that his wife is an inveterate flirt. One morning he catches Paoli, the village sport, kissing his wife. He chastises him and sends him away, but Paoli returns, and, engaged in a game of cards with Fenton, he lies and is killed by Fenton’s blow. Father and daughter try to conceal the body, but the police find it. After interviewing the Fentons, the police are led to believe that Jack committed the crime out of jealousy, His arrest not only causes the death of his mother, but drives him temporarily insane. Several years pass, and the prison superintendent, who has been working on evidence that will acquit Jack, finally obtains it. Upon his release Jack goes at once to the Fentons. His only determination is to be vindicated. This he finally accomplishes when his wife, unable to stand the penetrating gaze of his eyes which is constantly thrown upon her, confesses to the police that her father had committed the murder.