Mentioned in Confidence

Father Daly, seeing a capitalist and working man having a quarrel over their children, decides to interfere. He does so, and tells them a story of his early life as chaplain of a prison. Two children, Gordon Leigh and Marjorie Manning, are pretending they are doctor and nurse, burying a doll which has died following an operation. As the doll is buried the fathers of the children, Leigh, a wealthy man, and Manning, a poor florist, fight over their children's associating. Manning, angry, shouts, "Some day my girl will own that fine house of yours." Action shifts 15 years, about. Manning has become a rich florist. His daughter is his business assistant and very happy. Enters Perla, cabaret singer, to buy flowers. Manning falls in love with her. He marries her and she makes a mean step-mother, finally forcing Marjorie to leave home and strike out for herself. She becomes a nurse in the hospital where Gordon is chief surgeon. They fall in love, neither remembering their childhood ...