Complex sentence: Sappho genuinely falls in love with Richard, and decides to leave her vampy ways behind her so that she can have him, casting off her previous lover, an automobile company owner named Bertink, as she does.
Split into simpler sentences: Sappho genuinely falls in love with Richard, and decides to leave her vampy ways behind her so that she can have him. She casts off her previous lover, an automobile company owner named Bertink, as she does.