An Old Fashioned Girl
Directed by Lois Weber1912 11m[Short](/on-demand/category/short), [Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)
The girl in question possesses wealth and an old-fashioned aunt. One day, the girl, tired of the luxury and pretense of her life, visited her aunt, with the simple, pleasant little cottage, and the real sure enough garden and the wholesome country comforts. And either due to a queer whim or to something really sincere way down deep in her, the girl discarded her revolutionary dresses and manners, and became just a simple old-fashioned girl. She combed her hair in the old-fashioned way, and for an hour returned to the old way. There was a lawyer in the little village, a man with ambition and ability. He had a future, but that was about all he possessed. One day he passed the little garden and saw the girl picking flowers. He stopped to look and remained to stare. In due time he was presented to her by her aunt, and they took many long walks together, some of them by moonlight. The old story was whispered. Suddenly she left the village, but a little later wrote her lover asking him to call on her in the city. He came and saw the mansion and the wealth and that she was not for him. So he told her she wasn't the girl he know, and that it could never be, and left. She told her father about it, and soon the little country lawyer became very busy. Case after case was brought to him, and what's more he won them. Then he was invited by a firm of lawyers in the city to join their partnership. So he grew wealthy, and mighty and successful. One day he called on the girl. He felt it was different now, that he was of her order, and able to care for her in the manner to which she was accustomed. And he never knew that the girl had had her own way all through the matter.
