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It should go without saying that the 1910 Vitagraph melodrama Suspicion bears no relation to the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name. When her child dies, a young wife nearly lapses into insanity. She regains her wits by making daily visits to a local orphanage, where she assuages her grief by tending to the needs of the young inmates. Meanwhile, her husband, unaware of the nature of her lengthy disappearances from home, begins to suspect that she is cheating on him. Going so far as to hire a private detective to follow his wife, the husband is properly ashamed of himself when he learns the truth. The excellence of the film's cinematography was matched by the sincerity of the leading players.