Plot Summary:The life of Daisy, the little dressmaker, would have been blank had it not been for her sunny disposition and her canary. She makes barely enough to support herself and her invalid granny, hut she is ever singing, ever happy. But winter and hard times come. Granny falls very sick and the canary dies. So she decides to apply for help. She goes out and as the first thing she encounters is an automobile, she stops it and hauls Vincent, its owner, to her home. Her sweet simplicity fascinates the society man. He falls in love with her and marries her. Soon we find her fixing up a room for the expected first-born. The child is born dead. She, who wanted lots of children, is not to have even one. Aware that the truth would kill her, they substitute another baby. A month later Daisy is told of the substitution. She is pluckier than they expected. But when she visits the little grave, the ranking pain within her is more than she can stand and she falls ill. In her delirium she cries for the child. They press a big doll into her arms and she calms down. Daisy recovers her health and her spirits. The years roll by, and when she grows again aware of the signs of approaching motherhood she is seized by a terrible fear that she is destined to give birth to another dead-born child. She takes a vow before the crucifix that if the child lives she will neither kiss nor fondle it for a whole year. At last the year is at an end. At the end of the last minute she experiences for the first time the velvety pressure of the infant's lips against her own.