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The Week-End Synopsis

High-spirited Vera Middleton causes her conventional parents much anxiety, so they decide to marry her to Spencer Jardine, a man who is greatly desirous of her money. When, during a weekend at her friend Grace Maynard's seaside bungalow, Vera becomes involved in a fling with Grace's nephew Arthur Tavener, scandalized neighbors notify her parents. When she returns home, Jardine urges her to marry him in order to save her reputation. Vera refuses, indignantly returns to the seaside and proceeds to vamp Arthur in revenge for his kissing her. When he pledges his love, Vera repulses him until her parents insist upon her marriage to Jardine, at which time Vera embraces Arthur and announces that she will marry a real man.

The Hellion Synopsis

Joseph and Helen Harper, who have spent their niece Blanche's inheritance, worry that Blanche's fiancé, wealthy George Graham, will no longer want her when he finds out that she has gone insane from grief after hearing a report of his death in the war. When George returns and learns of the situation, he hires detectives to investigate. The Harpers convince cabaret dancer Mazie Del Mar, who resembles Blanche, to impersonate her and marry George. Mazie, wanting to escape from cabaret owner Signor Enrico, called "The Hellion," who uses hypnosis to control her, agrees, but she falls in love with George and feels deceitful. After Enrico kidnaps Blanche, thinking she is Mazie, and unsuccessfully tries to hypnotize her, they fight and Blanche is killed. George tells Mazie, about to confess, that his detectives told him who she was, but that he loves her anyway. He forgives the Harpers, since their scheme resulted in love for him and Mazie.