Dangerous Toys (1921)

Because his wife left him for another man, Harman, a banker, loses faith in women. Twenty years later he has stifled his grief and thinks women playthings. He takes deep interest in his clerk, Jack Gray, but, on finding him married, seeks to cause his wife to leave him, believing she is a hindrance to his ambitions. He places her in an apartment, gives her plenty of money without any conditions for three weeks, and also seeks to get Gray interested in other women. Scheme fails, as Mrs. Gray learns the emptiness of such a life. Husband, regardless of appearances, believes in her and takes her back. Broken in spirit and realizing there is true love, Harman is forgiven by the Grays and they bring about a reconciliation with his wife, who is living in poverty.