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The Awakening (II) (1914)
Short | Short, Drama, War

The Awakening (II) (1914)

Short | Short, Drama, War

Herbert Randolph, son of a well-to-do country clergyman, becomes engaged to Matilda Rankin, prim, homely, prudish young woman of his home town. He has proposed to her more to gratify his parents than because of any real love for her. His ...See moreHerbert Randolph, son of a well-to-do country clergyman, becomes engaged to Matilda Rankin, prim, homely, prudish young woman of his home town. He has proposed to her more to gratify his parents than because of any real love for her. His ambition is to be an author. He finishes his first novel and carries the manuscript to the city to a publisher. The editor of the publishing house to which he first submits it turns it back, telling him that his characters lack reality and naturalness, and calling special attention to a passage in which he portrays the lover experiencing his first thrill of love by kissing the heroine on the forehead, which is the limit of Herbert's own experience. Jane Conway, a reader in the publisher's office, has seen Herbert and becomes interested in him, believing that he has talent. She takes it upon herself to call upon him and offers to assist him in revising his novel, and he very gratefully accepts her assistance. She learns of his engagement to Matilda, sees her picture, and realizes not only that Herbert does not love her, but that with such a woman for a wife he can never hope to succeed in a literary career. Matilda and her mother come to the city, and Jane determines for Herbert's sake to break the engagement. Jane has an apartment below that of Herbert's in the same house, and while he is out one evening with Matilda and her mother, she gets into his room and places cards, chips, wine bottles and a pair of her gloves and slippers about the room. Herbert brings Matilda and her mother back to his apartment for some refreshments, after their evening's outing, and the two woman discover the suspicious evidence of a gay life that Jane has placed in the room. The two prim women are shocked. Matilda, ignoring Herbert's protestations of innocence, gives him back his ring and she and her mother depart in great indignation. Jane, who has been watching the scene outside the French window, falls into the room. Herbert accuses her of the plot, and she admits it, much to Herbert's amazement. Later she comes back for her things, finds him on the couch, and kisses him, and runs out. Herbert has been sensibly falling in love with Jane and this kiss in his sleep awakens him to the full realization of his feelings, and under this inspiration he revises his story and does it so well that it is promptly accepted. Jane in the meantime, fearing that she has gone too far and that she has offended Herbert, makes it a point to avoid meeting him, not realizing that he has fallen in love with her as she has with him. When he receives the letter from the publisher telling him of his acceptance of his manuscript, he takes it to Jane to thank her for her share in the good luck. He finds her asleep in a chair, and kisses her, thus revealing to her his love for her. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Neva Gerber Jane Conway Jane Conway See fewer	The Voice from the Sky (1929)
Edwin August Herbert Randolph Herbert Randolph See fewer	The Yellow Passport (1916)
Gypsy Abbott Actress Actress See fewer	The Man Who Could Not Lose (1914)
Louise Dunlap Actress Actress See fewer	Tess of the Storm Country (1914)