Summary
A gilded cage of chiffon and champagne, Margot Hughes flutters through ballrooms like a rare lepidopterist’s specimen, her wings pinned by the invisible price tag of a loveless union. She auctions her laughter to the rustle of banknotes, yet her purchaser—a husband too courteous to claim possession—leaves the marriage bed as cold as a marble slab. Interpreting his restraint as indifference, she flees to the blood-soaked crucible of wartime France, trading silk for sackcloth, courtesan’s rouge for the ashen dust of field hospitals. Amid the stench of carbolic and cordite, the couple’s gazes re-ignite; comprehension blooms like poppies in No-Man’s-Land, and the dowry she finally cashes is not coin but contrition.
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Margot Hughes is a butterfly society girl who sells herself to the highest bidder. Her husband does not press his ownership "by right of purchase," and she misunderstands his delicacy and she things that love is lost to her. She goes to France to serve the cause of humanity. There they meet again and understanding comes. For the Program: A loveless marriage that turned out differently. - Moving Picture World, February 2, 1918.
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