- Sarah Maitland is consumed by two interests, managing her steel mill and raising her children, Blair and Nannie, to be honest and caring. As a result, she is shocked when Blair seduces Elizabeth Ferguson away from his best friend, Doctor David Ritchie, and marries her. Elizabeth soon realizes her mistake and begs David to take her back, but his mother Helena, calling upon personal experience, warns the couple against an extra-marital affair. Then, Sarah is injured in a mill accident and doctors predict that she will die in a few hours. David manages to save her, however, and when Blair comes to see her, he vows to divorce Elizabeth so that she can marry the man she really loves.—Pamela Short
- Sarah Maitland manages well the iron mills left her by her husband. She tries to bring up her children, Blair and Nannie, with the same lack of sentimentality with which she conducts her business affairs. Nannie is a lovable girl, but Blair is a headstrong youth inattentive to his lessons. When he is sent to college he indulges in wild extravagance and luxurious surroundings. Mrs. Maitland receives a letter from the dean of the college complaining of Blair, and she makes him an unannounced visit. Bursting in upon him as he is giving a gay entertainment to a party of friends, she tells him what she thinks of him. She has denied herself everything in order to be able to turn over to him the mills in a prosperous condition on his graduation from college. Blair is so angry at her upbraidings that he tells her to leave. Sick at heart, she returns home. Blair is graduated by the narrowest possible margin and his mother puts him to work in the mill at a salary of five thousand dollars a year. David Ritchie, son of Helena Ritchie, has studied medicine and has become an intern in a hospital. Both he and Blair love Elizabeth Ferguson, Elizabeth really loves David, but being easily aggrieved, engages herself first to Blair in a moment of pique, and later to David. She wants to be married at once, but David cannot afford it and when she is left a legacy he refuses to be married on her money. She then marries Blair. David is grief-stricken, and Sarah Maitland furious. She sends for a lawyer, and changes her will, leaving the money she had intended for her son as an endowment for the hospital David wants to build. She informs Blair that since he has proved himself unworthy she will support him no longer, and that he must earn his own living. Sarah, while watching her men at work in the iron mill, is injured by an explosion. The doctor says that while she may live, she will never again regain consciousness. David hurries to her. He goes to bring Blair and Elizabeth, but finds Elizabeth alone. She has had time to repent her rash action in marrying Blair, and begs David to take her away. He is tempted by his love for her, but both are protected from themselves by the arrival of Helena Ritchie. To save the younger woman she bares the secrets of her own life, revealing the fact that her lover had refused to marry her after she was free to form a legal union with him. She tells David and Elizabeth that they will never respect each other if they yield to temptation now, and induces the girl to go with her. When they reach Sarah Maitland's bedside, the doctor says that death will occur in a few hours, but David is determined to save her. He succeeds in removing a piece of bone that is pressing against the brain. When Sarah opens her eyes she asks for Blair to come to her. He asks to be taken back, promising to take his proper place in the management of the mills and also to release Elizabeth. The two lovers, honoring and respecting each other, clasp hands over the form of the "iron woman," who is destined to experience only love and happiness during the remainder of a useful life.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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