"I first read the story in the Saturday Evening Post," said Miss Nilsson recently, "and was impressed by the weird power of the tale. The character of Ember, which fascinated me from the story's beginning, was baffling to me, when I tried to fathom her motives in all she did from her first drunken supper party which resulted in her mad marriage to her final determination to sell herself to the profligate Bunny fish.
"Yet this very mystery in the girl's character constituted the story's rare charm for me. Ember was a once, I realized, a most unusual type of girl whose destiny was controlled by obscure impulses that had their spring in hereditary influences far beyond the ken of human perception. She was an enigma even to herself, yet no less tragic and no less pitiful in all the circumstances that surrounded her.
"So when I learned that the part of Ember would fall to me I was overjoyed. And yet, again, I was awed a little, too, for I was conscious of the mystery in the girl's nature and wished to understand her thoroughly in my screen portrayal of the part.
"This meant getting acquainted with Ember, the strange girl who gotpsy at a wild supper party, married a minister's son who forged a check and then through a long series of mishaps—at last to sink to the lowest depth for any woman." 