The Great Problem of Life and the Question of Moral Standards Discussed in a Gripping Story of Dramatic Conviction, Proving That Morality Leads Humanity to Truest Happiness.

Wealthy Richard Covington, although aging and lonely, distresses his children, Waverly and Beatrice, by marrying a heartless seductress named Fay Hope. Because Fay's extravagant spending threatens to ruin Richard, Beatrice confronts her, which prompts Richard, who is hopelessly in love with the beautiful vampire, to order his daughter from the house.