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Marie, the daughter of Emile De Severac, a novelist, is home from the convent. She is betrothed to George Renoir, an artist friend of her father, who is devotedly in love with her. Marie has suddenly developed flirtatious symptoms and to warn and guard her against the trouble she is likely to create for herself and others, unless she ceases her folly, De Severac tells her the plot of his unpublished story, "Black Orchids." Zoraida is a sorceress whose only aim in life seems to be the entanglement of men in her meshes. Sebastian De Maupin is envious of his son Ivan, who is temporarily in Zoraida's favor, and to get rid of the youthful lover the father uses his influence to have his boy sent to the front line of battle in the war then raging. Sebastian De Maupin, thinking himself now in sole possession of Zoraida's affections, introduces her to Marquis De Chantal, a rich and handsome nobleman, upon whom Zoraida turns her attentions. Enraged because Zoraida seems to have abandoned him, ...