Just Like a Woman (1912)

When the suitor of the daughter of an apparently wealthy widow finds out that the oil stocks in which her late husbands fortune is invested are worthless he finds the daughter less attractive The widows broker has a wealthy friend who becomes very interested in the girl although he is twice her age He proposes marriage believing that he can win her love through kindness The girl for her mother sake accepts and they are married Despite his great love he is unable to overcome the great difference in their ages so he buys the worthless oil stock so that she may be independent and he then leaves her to go back to his oil fields His sacrifice arouses the girls love and she follows him to tell him of her awakening