An ex-convict tries to kill the detective who once posed as a member of an American hooded clan.

A charming, tender-hearted American boy who adores his mother and promised his dying father that he would always take care of her, turns out to be the long-lost heir to a British fortune and is sent to live with the cold, unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.

Would-be politician Sir Hugo Boycott and his wife Madeleine have an unhappy marriage. Madeleine is aware that Hugo is a serial philanderer, and their problems are exacerbated when she fails to produce the heir he wants.

A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.

A paralytic dominates his brother and wife until their child reforms him.

A lonely squire throws a New Year's party for villagers and discloses that he is a poor girl's uncle.

Eustace Ede, the unhinged brother of Lady Magda Ware, is discovered drowned in the lake of her country house. While most assume it to have been suicide, a detective inspector's persistence finally leads to the arrest of Magda's husband, Sir Hubert Ware. The subsequent murder trial turns into a major society scandal, and the strain on Sir Hubert's mind may prove too much for him whether he is found innocent or guilty....