The Count and the Wedding Guest (1918)

Mary Conway was a nonentity in Mrs Scotts New York genteel boarding house She had never had a beau Andy Donovan a new boarder caused her first flutter and regret for her unattractiveness A description in a lurid novel of the griefstricken heroine and the attention she attracted in her garb of woe gives Mary an idea and two weeks later she appears fashionably attired in Fifth avenue mourning and weeps forth a tale to the now sympathetic Andy of a dead fiancé the Count Mazzini