- Leaving his wife Rose for a few weeks and eager to do research for his new novel about the elderly, Henry Norman goes to live in a home for the aged, where Blossom, the home's young maid, falls in love with him. When she lets him know how she feels, however, Henry tells her that he has a wife. When his research is over, he returns to her--and discovers that she has eloped with his friend Perry Westley, and that they were both killed by a lightning bolt that struck Perry's car. While Henry recovers from this double shock, Blossom quits her job and finds work at God's Half Acre, an orphanage. While on a picnic with the children, she once again meets Henry, who realizes that he loves Blossom. They marry.—Pamela Short
- Successful novelist Henry Norman is engaged in writing his new book. He decides that he must delve into real life for his material, as his previous work has been too idealistic. The new book is about aged types, and his friend, Perry Westley, gives him an opportunity to live for a while at a home for the aged called "Rainbow's End." There is an excellent reason for Westley's sending him away from home. Westley is in love with Mrs. Norman, and is paying her attentions. Ignorant of the true condition of affairs, Henry takes up his temporary residence at Rainbow's End. More interesting than all the aged types is the forlorn young maid-of-all-work, Blossom, who, scarcely more than a child in years, is old before her time. Henry laughingly calls her "The Little Old Young Lady." In her Henry finds the inspiration for his book. She tells him all about her aged charges, and aids him in gathering material. Another who feels the charm of the stranger is Lucy Hargreaves, the matron, commonly known as "The Dragon." In spite of her ugliness, she is determined to make him love her. But Henry's thoughts are concerned only with his work. A letter brings him tickets from a playwright friend to attend the opening of a new play. He throws the tickets into the wastebasket, but seeing the wistful expression on Blossom's face he asks her to accompany him, intending to write a chapter on "The Little Old Young Lady in Society." She is overjoyed. Henry's wife and Westley are also at the premiere, and Rose Norman, seeing Blossom with her husband, decides that the time has come for her to run away with Westley. Blossom found a page of Henry's manuscript, in which a proposal of marriage is made to "The Little Old Young Lady." She thinks it is meant for her, and before saying good-night to him, she asks, innocently, "When are we going to be married?" Henry is obliged to tell her that he is already married. She creeps upstairs, to cry herself to sleep, when she is confronted by the angry "Dragon," who drives her out of the house. Henry goes home, only to find that his wife and his false friend have eloped in an automobile which is shortly struck by lightning. Both are killed. Blossom takes refuge in God's Half Acre, an asylum for crippled children presided over by Cynthia Huckaby, and she helps Cynthia with the children. Time brings her an opportunity to save the life of Henry Norman's little son, and in this way Henry finds her again. He promises to make her over into a young young lady, instead of an old young lady, and then writes the last words of his new novel, "They lived happily ever after."—Moving Picture World synopsis
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