The Matrimonial Martyr (1916)

Erma Desmond leaves her uncle and aunt to visit a friend Phyllis in the city There she finds work as the companion to the highly temperamental Mrs Stanley Mrs Stanley has terrorized her husband to such an extent that he has gone away for a few months purportedly to take their daughter to school but mainly to get some peace The servants however are still victims of her terrible fits until the day she decides to head for Reno to get a divorce