A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.

In France the Queen poisons the Huguenot Queen and weds her son to the King's sister as part of an assassination plan.

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.

A Frenchman turns highwayman after a duchess's cousin frames him for killing a title blackmailer.

When the king is killed by his rival, his English double takes his place and is shot.

An intensely unhappy woman hatches a plot to switch the babies of a poor family and a rich family. But the nurse hired to pull off this transfer refuses to go through with it, leaving each baby with its proper family. When the babies are grown, the man from the poor family (who has been led to believe that he did come from the rich family) goes to the house of the other and throws him out. The remainder of the film deals with the frustrations of mistaken identity.