Secrets

Mary Carlton is depressed over her husband John's illness and feels her life has no use if he dies. The film jumps to 1865 in the time she fell in love with John, who is a working class employee. Her parents find out about the affair and forbid her from seeing John again. By the time it's 1870, she lives with John in a poor house, while Mary is giving birth to a son. Years pass by in 1888, Mary finds out John is having a mistress, Estelle.