The Cheat

S1 E4: Richard Hardy, a hardworking stockbroker, labors overtime to keep up with the ruinous bills incurred by his beautiful but irresponsible wife Edith, a venal, spoiled socialite who is impervious to his pleas for fiscal restraint. Acting on what she believes to be insider information, she impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the Red Cross charity that she chairs. When she discovers that the money has been lost, Edith desperately turns to a Japanese ivory trader with whom she has been thoughtlessly flirting, and persuades him to replace the money in exchange for an assignation.