A young Englishman falls in love with the children's governess in his step-sister's home. His step-sister, however, cannot abide the class differential in the romance and sabotages it. The young man, in a state of boredom and depression, begins to invite into the house anyone who happens to pass by in the street.
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Herbert Rawlinson as Peter Waverton
Leila Valentine as Margaret Summers
Ellen Cassidy as Beatrice Dainton (as Ellen Cassity)
Pauline Coffyn as Lady Hurley
William J. Ferguson as Pine, the Butler
Tom Lewis as Nighty
Dick Lee as Burns
Charles Stuart Blackton as Little Peter (as Charles Blackton)
C. Haddon Chambers Theatre Play
J. Stuart Blackton Director
Stanley Olmstead Writer
William S. Adams Director of Photography
United States 20 June 1920
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