The Web of Desire (1917)

When his wife Grace inherits her fathers stock John Miller the president of the Western Power and Development Company becomes a millionaire and moves to New York with his family Beset by business problems Miller pays little attention to his wife and Grace feeling neglected takes up with a bohemian set Among her new acquaintances she meets Stuart Mordant the attorney for Thomas Hurd a business rival of Millers Grace seeks refuge from loneliness in Mordant who makes a bargain with Hurd to gain control of her husbands company for half a million dollars