Madeleine Smith, the beautiful eldest daughter of a wealthy Glasgow family, begins an illicit love affair with the charming Emile, a working-class Frenchman. When she begins to suspect that Emile loves her only for her money and social status, Madeleine agrees to marry the man her iron-fisted father approves of, wealthy and respectable William Minnoch . When Emile dies suddenly, suspicion points to Madeleine as his murderer.
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