Summary
Priscilla Kane, silk-heiress and firebrand, vaults over the wrought-iron palisade of her finishing school like a comet breaching dusk, trailing privilege and petulance in equal scorn. She spurns the dynastic match her father, the grain-speculating titan, has soldered for her, and slips incognito into the city’s underbelly—a realm of thrum and thistle where shirt-fronts fray and reputations unravel. In the sepia haze of a mending shop she is mistaken by Langdon Trevor, muckraker extraordinaire, for one of the drudges whose fingers he pays to re-stitch his ethics along with his cuffs. Smelling adventure, she lets the error stand, becomes his midnight seamstress, and threads every buttonhole with flirtation. A shutterbug in Kane’s pocket snaps the scandalous tableau—Trevor reclined, Priscilla bending like a Pre-Raphaelite nurse—turning private dalliance into public fuse. Through the casement they bolt, exchange vows in the freight-yard dawn, and leave the paternal empire smoldering behind them like last night’s newsprint.
Synopsis
Society girl Priscilla Kane relishes excitement, escapes from her boarding school and then rejects the man her father has selected for her. While visiting a mending shop, Langdon Trevor, a journalist who has exposed Priscilla's father as a food profiteer, mistakes Priscilla for a seamstress and asks her to call on him. Priscilla, attracted to Trevor, plays along, visiting Trevor and doing his mending. On one such visit, the photographer hired by Kane to frame Trevor snaps the young man in bed with Priscilla as his nurse. The two escape through a window and are married.
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