"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."
--Oscar Wilde
Jacqueline Floriot's (Pauline Frederick) situation goes from bad to worse as her associate plots blackmail and keeps her drunk on Absinthe.
Madame X (1920)
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