Nora, resenting her life as a pampered wife, forges a signature in order to obtain money for her ailing husband, and the results of this act lead her to personal growth and to her resentment of being treated like a doll in her own home.
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the seventeenth century, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a desert island.
