Summary
Moonlit gazes ricochet across a marble ballroom where Diana—ivory-shouldered, mercury-witted—collects proposals the way debutantes collect dance cards; Jack, the penniless architect, sketches cathedrals of light in her eyes while Frank, the banker who already owns the marble floor beneath their feet, weighs futures on a gold scale. When Diana’s choice cleaves toward Jack, the scene pivots from waltz to auction: Frank purchases her father’s honor with a forged promissory note, then presents the IOU like a corsage of thorns, demanding one night of capitulation in exchange for paternal absolution. What follows is a chiaroscuro game of trembling scruples and clockwork extortion, the camera lingering on keyholes and clenched gloves as Diana negotiates the price of her own myth—will she remain the eponymous woman above reproach, or does survival sometimes require staining the halo?
Synopsis
Three men are pursuing Diana, a beautiful young woman, and she finally decides on which one she wants, Jack. One of the rejected suitors, a rich and powerful banker named Frank, plots to get his revenge by forcing her father to forge Jack's name to a note, then tells Diana that he will ruin her father unless she sleeps with him.
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