A Hoosier Romance (1918)

Pretty Patience Thompson a girl with a singing soul lives with her coldhearted and avaricious father Jeff Thompson on their Indiana farm Her life of drudgery is brightened by John the hired hand but when he asks for her hand in marriage the old man flies into a rage and discharges him Soon an aged but wealthy widower courts Patience and although she still loves John Old Jeff orders her to marry the widower claiming that a fathers will is the law