Their Masterpiece (1913)

Absorbed in his painting Robert Gainsworthy neglects his beautiful wife not intentionally but rather in the preoccupied way of a man who did not want the single train of thought broken He worked for days in his studio without ever speaking to her and the strain told on their relations for the wife brooded bitterly Jack Sanders a globetrotting cousin of Robert visited at the Gainsworthy home He took many strolls with the heartsick wife and found himself madly infatuated