Jill Rainsford

France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.

Judge Henry L. Foster throws his daughter out as she's married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Professor Eustance McGargle before she dies. Years later, Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of Judge Foster's friend, falls in love.