Whirlpool (1939)

The happiness of a newlymarried couple Henry and Jeannie Saint Clair is shattered when the husband is made a paralytic in an automobile accident The wife still loves him although he is incapable of any physical love She is slowly drawn into a shortlived affair with a handsome athlete Robert Vanier When the husband learns of the affair he commits suicide But the wife cannot forget him and she sends her lover away