The Wife He Never Knew

The contract runs three years. Clara Reed is to live as Adrian Carter's wife in place of her twin sister, who ran away rather than go through with the marriage, and at the end of the term she is to be paid and let go. Adrian is in love with another woman and treats Clara with indifference for the whole three years. Clara asks nothing of him beyond what the contract says. When the term is up the real bride comes back, and Clara leaves without a word, collects her payment and opens a flower shop in another city. The truth about the substitution comes out after she has gone. Adrian turns on the woman he had loved and then goes looking for Clara. By the time he finds her she is already with another man, one who knew from the start which sister she was.