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Grief-stricken at the death of his mother, a boy rejects his new stepmother. His feelings change when she risks her life to save something precious to him.
Having no other means of earning a living, a young woman runs a boarding house after the death of her parents. After an upsetting incident with two finicky and mean lady boarders, who leave, a gentleman boarder comes to her aid.