Earnest academic bacteriologist who marries socialite Kitty Garstin. After discovering her affair with Charles Townsend, he volunteers for a dangerous cholera treatment mission in remote China. He endures hardship, builds aqueducts to control the epidemic, and falls ill. Despite Kitty's pregnancy with an unknown paternity, he accepts her. He ultimately dies from cholera, leaving a devastated but transformed Kitty.
Married couple whose union begins with mismatched expectations.
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