Plot

From girlhood through marriage, Flo outgrows five major faults: pride, envy, fickleness, extravagance, and jealousy. First, she gets rid of her excessive pride when the butcher's daughter almost dies after Flo rejects her from an exclusive school club. Then, Flo covets a friend's diamond, but when the jewel is stolen and Flo is falsely accused, her envy vanishes, even though she is cleared of the charge. After her engagement, a brief flirtation almost leads to a fatal car accident that cures Flo of fickleness. Then, when Flo's extravagance comes close to ruining her father, she comes to understand that she must be careful with money. Finally, when Flo realizes that she has mistaken her husband's kindness for an affair with another woman, she loses her jealous streak, and a now-faultless Flo can settle down to a happy married life.—Pamela Short

Memories of the past came to Flo one night when she overheard her husband telling a friend that his wife has no faults. Flo knew that during her life she had been the slave of five faults: Pride, Envy, Fickleness, Extravagance, and Jealousy. When a schoolgirl Flo was full of pride, for her father was in comfortable circumstances and was able to send her to a fashionable institution. One day a new pupil arrived, a timid little girl. Flo took a dislike to her because the newcomer's father was a man of no position. She snubbed the little girl and kept her out of the chief school society. One night Flo and some of her chums were holding a party. They heard a cry from outside, and saw a rope made from a sheet dangling from the next window and the girl writhing in pain on the ground below. Evidently she had started to climb out of the window, lost her grip and fallen. She rose to her feet and hobbled off painfully. Flo and the others went into the next room, the school home of the timid little girl. The place was empty, but on the table was a pathetic little note. The lonely child wrote that she had tried so hard to make the other girls love her, but failed. She could not remain in school, she was afraid to return home, so had determined to go out into the world and seek work. Flo knew that she was to blame, and when she found the timid little girl told her that she would change her attitude toward her. As a debutante Flo was envious. But she believed that this fault of hers was cured when she attended a weekend party and witnessed the trapping of a thief who had stolen a priceless diamond on which Flo had cast covetous glances. As a society girl, Flo was fickle. She flirted with many men and was secretly engaged to the young electrical engineer who later became her husband. There was another man, a wealthy young idler, with whom Flo went motoring. While they were out the young idler imbibed too freely. Reckless of danger he drove ahead at top speed. Fortunately for Flo they encountered the young engineer driving his own auto. He saved his sweetheart but the intoxicated millionaire drove his car over a cliff and was killed. This incident taught Flo another lesson, and she gave up her fickleness. As a daughter Flo was extravagant. Her father was foolishly fond of her and she never realized that her own expenses and those of the home were rapidly bringing him close to ruin. Finally the father made a personal appeal to his wealthy elder brother but the latter refused to loan him a cent. The two men were talking in a room on the ground floor and a servant girl outside the door heard angry words and heard her master say that the other man would never get a cent while he (the elder brother) lived. Then there was a shot and the maid who immediately rushed into the room found her master dead upon the floor and his brother standing near him. On the floor was a revolver, one chamber of which had been discharged. Flo's father was arrested, and sentenced to death. On the day set for the execution, Flo's sweetheart found the real assassin. He had been employed by the victim as his gardener and bad been discharged. In vindictive rage he had fired through the window killing his ex-employer, dropped the gun inside the window and made good his escape. He had been injured in a street accident later and on his deathbed made the confession that cleared an innocent man. The realization that her own extravagance had placed her father's life in peril cured Flo of extravagance. As a bride Flo was jealous. One day she saw her husband reading a letter. He dropped it on the table as he went to the telephone. She picked it up and read it. The letter read as follows: My dear boy: I'll give you until Saturday night to square your dealings with me. If you stay away I'll expose you. Yours, Stella Riccardo. Flo believed this was a love letter to her husband. It was really a note his ne'er-do-well brother had received from the woman proprietor of a fashionable gambling house. Through the telephone directory Flo found the address of Miss Riccardo, met her maid, and by paying her liberally induced the girl to go away and substitute Flo in her place. Her husband was in ignorance of her plan, for she had left word for him that her aunt in a distant city was ill and she had gone there. Thus Flo was in the gambling house when her husband called and she overheard his conversation with Stella Riccardo. To her joy, she learned the truth and was stricken with remorse, because of her jealousy. The police raided the place and all were in danger of arrest. Stella escaped through a panel in the wall. Flo's husband was too much excited to move until his wife rushed into the room, grabbed him by the hand and dragged him into the secret passage way, Just before the panel swung back into place. From this place they went upstairs. A rope was dangling from a window which made it possible to swing across the courtyard to the window of an adjoining building. Stella was just about to make the leap when the other appeared. It flustered her, she swung out hastily, the rope slipped from her hands and she fell to the pavement below. Undaunted by this accident Flo and her husband got safely away. Coming out of her reverie. Flo thought of the words her husband uttered and mused to herself, "Even if one has faults they really do not count if one's friends and relatives believe they do not exist."—Moving Picture World synopsis