John Meade's Woman plot
"SPITE MARRIAGE!"
"Teddy" Connor, a recently orphaned woman, leaves her uncle's farm in the Midwest for Chicago, where she meets "timber king" John Meade. He takes her for a hot meal and sends her roses the next day. John is engaged to penniless beauty Caroline Haig, who is in love with Rodney Bentley and marries John for his money. John, a jovial millionaire without a conscience, orders his old employee, Tim Mathews, to report from the sawmills in Chicago and announces that he is leaving the lumber business for wheat. Although Tim insists that they reforest their timberland, John ignores his plea. For entertainment, John invites Teddy and Tim to his engagement party at Caroline's wealthy friend's estate. Teddy, realizing that John is engaged to a woman who does not love him, drowns her tears in liquor and embarrasses Caroline.