Slaves of Pride

Patricia Leeds is placed on the auction block of marriage by her extravagant, selfish mother and sold to the highest bidder, Brewster Howard, a wealthy man obsessed with his own importance. Howard browbeats his wife to such an extent that for revenge she elopes with his secretary, John Reynolds. The humiliated husband pursues his wife and her lover, and in the ensuing fight, Reynolds falls to his death in front of an oncoming train. After returning home, when Howard discovers that his secretary has ruined him financially, he totters on the brink of suicide until Patricia appears and declares her love for him.