There is a fine, human idea presented in this picture. The picture is well acted also, but it is too long and neither the drift of the action nor the relationship of the characters is made clear soon enough. The true burglar, the character who made the incident possible, wasn't introduced till we see the ghost or vision of his wife who comes to him in his hiding place, and then the play is nearly ended. Again, we couldn't see any reason why the sick nurse shouldn't have gone to sleep, because no one overheard the doctor say that the sick child should have his medicine every hour. The burglar heard that, but we didn't know that he did, though we saw that he had recently lost a child and was sorry that he had entered that house. Finding the nurse sleeping, he gives the child the medicine and so saves its life; then he goes home. But it isn't plain whether the incident has reformed him or not, nor do we know who the other man is who at the beginning and end of the film comes in yet apparently has nothing to do with the story. - The Moving Picture World, August 5, 1911
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