Paddy the Next Best Thing (1923)

Paddy Adair plays the part of a son to her father, who wanted to have a son, but accepted Paddy as the next-best-thing. Paddy is a tom-boy and helps Jack O'Hara make love to her sister, who, however, is in love with another, Lawrence Blake. Blake has only led the girl on, not being in love with her. Lawrence tells Paddy that he loves her, but she drives him away in anger. Paddy's father dies. Jack goes to South America to make his fortune. Paddy goes to London to live. Lawrence follows her and she eventually falls in love with him. Jack returns and Paddy goes to the old home to meet him. Wishing to be alone, Paddy wanders from the old home and is lost in a dense fog. Lawrence rescues her.