Dolly's Scoop plot
"A journalist is reluctant to ruin a woman's reputation for the sake of a juicy story."
James Fairfax is the editor of the Morning Argus, a scandal magazine that publishes every juicy story no matter who it hurts. His associates hate his underhanded methods, especially Dolly Clare, one of his reporters. Editor Fairfax is very jealous of his wife Alice's past relationship with a man named Philip Ainsworth. Philip's sister comes to visit Alice and begs her to use her influence to get her brother Philip to stop drinking. Alice goes to see him one afternoon and finds him drunk, holding her old love letters that she had written to him before she married James Fairfax.