Sacred and Profane Love (1921)

Carlotta Peel who though sheltered from the facts of life by her Victorian aunt has acquired some knowledge from indiscriminate reading meets Diaz a celebrated pianist at a concert and spends the evening with him Later in London she acquires fame as a novelist and is followed to France by married publisher Frank Ispenlove who commits suicide when she spurns him In Paris Carlotta finds Diaz a physical wreck from drinking absinthe and devotes herself to his regeneration