- Elsie Drummond, the "Vixen," a spoiled nymphomaniac, takes pleasure in wreaking havoc on her sweet sister Helen. When Helen becomes enamored of Martin Stevens, a Wall Street businessman, Elsie turns on her considerable charms and woos him away. After Charlie Drummond, Elsie's shiftless brother, steals from Stevens and causes a scandal, Stevens is ruined financially and Elsie promptly leaves him. Through deliberate manipulation, Elsie then steals Knowles Murray, a young statesman, from Helen and succeeds in marrying him. Elsie and Murray move to Paris, forcing Helen to care for their alcoholic father. Six years later, Murray is called to Washington, D.C. and Elsie, now the mother of two children, renews her acquaintance with Martin Stevens, who has regained his wealth and position. As Murray is about to catch Elsie in Stevens' arms, Helen, to protect the children, supplies Elsie with an escape and an alibi. While Elsie continues in her deceptive ways, Stevens, finally wise to the Vixen, marries Helen.
- Elsie Drummond's eldest sister, Helen, has acted as her mother for years. By unscrupulous deceit she draws Helen's sweetheart, Martin Stevens, away from her. When Stevens loses his money Elsie casts him aside. When Helen becomes friends with Knowles Murray, Elsie lies to Murray about Helen and lies to Helen about Murray. The result is that she ingratiates herself with the man. By continued underhand methods she succeeds in winning Murray for herself when he is appointed consul abroad. For a few years Elsie and Murray live happily in Paris. Two children are born to them. Then Murray is recalled for work in Washington. Elsie finds that Stevens has regained his wealth and that Helen is still sorrowing because of Murray's strange coldness toward her years ago. Elsie's passion for power still grips her in Washington. She meets Kingsley, a young lounger, and proceeds as a matter of course to captivate him. Her husband learns of the acquaintanceship and is on the point of discovering the truth, when Elsie lies again, so cleverly that Murray believes Kinsley's attentions are being paid to Helen instead of his wife. Stevens finally comes to realize that Elsie's whole life has been one of deception. For Helen's sake he wishes to expose her sister. Helen pleads against such action, to save the children. Elsie, chastened for once, returns to her husband.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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