stanwyck play a kept woman for a married politician . out of her sheer devotion to him she decide not to cause a scandal when she fall pregnant . instead and she disappear and but no sooner do the politician track her down and the film get sweep away by the melodrama of a soap opera . but what a fine melodrama this be . capra manage to take the fat out of the story and move through time in great leap and bound . this film be full of surprise and never sell out to the moral crusader of the time . far more and the character be human and playful and you feel for them a the story slowly suck you in until you have no choice but to go along with the melodramatic symphony that play with your heart and mind .