East Lynne

Isabel Vane is happily married to Archibald Carlyle and the proud mother of a son. She leads a life of bliss at the family estate, East Lynne, until she suspects Archibald of infidelity with Barbara Hare, who has come to East Lynne to seek his legal advice. Isabel succumbs to the persuasions of Francis Levison and leaves her family to marry him. When Francis abandons Isabel and their baby, she sets out for East Lynne to ask Archibald's forgiveness, but she is seriously injured in a train wreck, while the child is killed. Finally arriving at her destination, Isabel dies before she learns that Archibald, believing her dead, has married Barbara Hare.