Des Pfarrers Töchterlein (1913) Online

Des Pfarrers Töchterlein (1913) Online

Clare Bradley, the daughter of a minister, receives a letter from Jack Langdon stating that he is to return to his parents' home on the estate adjoining the rectory. Clare is overjoyed when her old playmate, now a young man, appears and together they visit favorite haunts on the old grounds and in a room dissolve into those of children and back to the adult characters of Clare and Jack. The young man fulfills the promise of his boyhood by asking the minister's daughter to marry him. She accepts him and following this a love scene in the garden is witnessed by a servant in Jack's household, who hurries to tell his mother. Mrs. Langdon wants her son to marry his cousin Dora and to prevent the growth of the love affair she disapproves of, invites Dora to visit them. Clare's father, who has watched the lovers from a window, warns the girl not to think of Jack as a possible husband. Dora soon succeeds in winning her cousin's love and Clare, guessing the truth, is miserable. When she sees ...