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Claire Esmarck is a woman of charm, but she is headstrong and filled with caprice and brings trouble into the lives of those about her. In the story she is first seen at a reception and here she comes face to face with Jacques Ramm, her first husband, from whom she had been divorced. She scorns him at first, but relents when told of the cunning ways of the child of their union. Ramm grants her permission to see the child, but the couple is observed by Dr. Esmarck, who is jealous and unaware that his wife is a divorced woman. On the following day Claire accompanies Ramm to his home and holds her child in her arms with maternal delight. While she is with Ramm, Dr. Esmarck is visiting his avaricious old uncle, who is making his will, but who declares that he will cut his nephew off unless he repays the money he has borrowed from him. Next day Ramm's child is taken ill and he hastens to Claire, urging her to plead with her husband to attend the child. Dr. Esmarck is jealous of Ramm and at first refuses, but when Claire drops to her knees and confesses that she is the mother of the child and reveals her past, he relents and visits the little one. This duty performed he sells his wife's favorite horse in order to meet the demands of his greedy old uncle. He leaves the latter's house, but the financial transaction is observed by a tramp. The latter enters the room and the shock of his sudden appearance causes the old man to die of heart failure. The housekeeper finds him on the floor and noting that Dr. Esmarck had been with him a few minutes before, causes his arrest on a charge of murder. By a strange kink of fate, Jacques Ramm, the lawyer, is selected to prosecute the doctor and during the ordeal Claire sits beside her husband and listens to the burning denunciations by the father of her child. The jury returns a verdict of guilty. Being left thus alone she engages herself as a nurse in a nearby hospital. She is assigned to attend a patient who had been injured in an explosion. It is the tramp who was responsible for the death of the old uncle. During his convalescence he reads of the conviction of Dr. Esmarck on a charge of murder and confesses the truth to Claire. The latter hastens to place the matter before the authorities and in due time her husband is released. Realizing her great devotion, he forgives her for her secret past and they go forth together to enjoy the inheritance which comes to them through the old man's will.