After three years of a loveless marriage Paula is at her breaking point and informs Charles she wants to take a trip abroad without him. Paula agrees and Charles rises politically while Paula anguishes over the love she has for him but can't show or receive back from Charles. Sensing he needs a wife to help his political career he approaches Paula and offers her a marriage of convenience with no strings attached. Charles, now a famous businessman, enters politics and is elected on his first try. Paula is distraught when Charles nearly marries a much younger woman, but the memory lapse of his time with Paula prevents him from going through with the marriage. Paula is instructed by a psychiatrist not to revel herself to Charles or to let him know their son died soon after he left, but let his memories come back naturally. Unbeknownst to Charles, his secretary for the past two years, Margaret Hanson, is actually Paula. However, Charles is continually haunted by the fact that he has no memory of the 3 year period from the war until he woke up in Liverpool. Recalling his real name he begins his life again as Charles Rainier and soon becomes a rich industrialist. When he wakes up he is confused because the memory of his time with Paula is now gone and his last memory is when he was in the war. While in Liverpool he is knocked unconscious when hit by a taxi and comes to in a local shop. Soon after their first child is born 'Smithy' heads on an overnight trip to Liverpool for a job interview. Paula and 'Smithy' fall in love they're married, and begin a quiet peaceful life together. 'Smithy' responds to her kindness and his health improves but his amnesia remains. 'Smith' is befriended by a local actress named Paula who begins calling him 'Smithy'. During a lapse in security, while the staff celebrates the Armistice, 'Smith' simply walks out of the asylum and finds himself in the nearby town. Suffering from shell shock and amnesia, he can't even remember his name and is given the name 'John Smith'. HuggoĪ World War I veteran is languishing in an English asylum. Things start to look familiar once Charles makes a business trip to Melbridge. Margaret's task is made even more complicated when Charles makes her an interesting proposition. But Charles' new secretary, Margaret Hansen, wants Charles to remember the life he left behind with Paula as Margaret is a person who knew Smithy. He also plans to marry a longtime family friend, Kitty. Charles returns to his life as a wealthy Rainier and begins his career as head of the Rainier family business. An accidental bump to the head makes Smithy remember his past life as Charles Rainier but he forgets about what happened in his life the previous three years, including his marriage to Paula. They soon fall in love and despite not knowing his true identity or his past, they get married and start a family. To hide him from the authorities who are after him, she quits her job and takes him out to the countryside. Outside, he is quickly befriended by Paula, a traveling music hall performer who nicknames him Smithy and who wants to nurture his ability to regain his memory. An amnesiac war veteran, known as John Smith, has just escaped from the Melbridge County Asylum, only there in the first place because of his amnesia and having nowhere else to go.
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