Based on the short story from George Eliot's 1857 work Scenes of a Clerical life. A chaplain to an aristocratic British family falls in love with their ward, a young Italian woman, who he marries. Tragedy strikes when she dies only a few months later leaving him in a state of grief.
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Mary Odette as Caterina
Robert Henderson-Bland as Maynard Gilfil
Peter Upcher as Anthony Wybrow
Dora De Winton as Lady Clevere
A. Harding Steerman as Sir Christopher Chever
Aileen Bagot as Beatrice Asscher
Norma Whalley as Lady Asscher
John Boella as Signor Sarti
Irene Drew as Dorcas
Robert Clifton as Knott
United Kingdom 01 March 1920
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