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Sylvia Mike is a confident and good looking man. His father passed away when he was young and his mother inherited a fortune which she intends to pass to him, the eldest son. His younger brother Jules is happy go lucky and not at all like Mike who is serious and short tempered. Mike falls in love with a girl named Sylvia. Her father is near bankruptcy and Mike's mother finances her father, saving him. Sylvia's father then tells her to marry Mike. So an arranged marriage is organized.

Mike tries his best to win over Sylvia's affections. But she is cold and distant from him. Sylvia's father explains that Sylvia has always been like this. Ever since her mother and only brother were killed in an accident; she's had trouble expressing her emotions.

When Mike finally seems to be making some progress, she falls ill. The doctors announce that she is barren and cannot have children. As time passes, Sylvias gets sicker and sicker. Mike is very caring and loving and takes care of Sylvia, tending to her every need and want. Sylvia doesn't tell Mike, but she is slowly falling in love with him. Then Sylvia's father dies of a heart attack after another failed business venture.

Sylvia is grief stricken and her condition worsens. Finally, she is so sick she is about to die. At her death bed, she tells Mike for the first time, that she loves him. And was afraid to love him because everyone she loved she lost.

Mike is full of guilt and remorse. He cries and says that it isn't fair. He didn't mean to kill her. Just make her sick enough to be dependant on him so that she would fall in love with him. He was poisoning her with organic mercury which was supposed to take years to kill or do any permanent damage, but for some strange reason Sylvia suffered its effects immediately. As he finishes his confession, he notices that she is already dead. He screams her name over and over again. Ends