Sir George and the Heiress (1911)
The young hostess of a house party is detained on the other side of the Atlantic and the party assembles at her mother's house, most of the guests being unknown to that lady. Under these circumstances, Miriam Westover feels that she is perfectly safe in exchanging names and places with her companion, a rather charming young woman, so that incognito, she may get acquainted with Sir George Carrington, a young Englishman whom the matchmaking little friend has invited to meet her. But Sir George being of a cautious turn of mind and fearing the title-hunting American mammas, decides to change places with his own secretary and thus meet the American heiress, in his turn, incognito. When they do meet, each of the secretaries believes that he or she has won the attentions and later the affections of someone of high degree and on the other hand, each of the other young people believes that he or she has lost a heart to someone of low degree. Finally Sir George overhears his secretary planning an elopement with the young lady who he believes to be Miriam and hastens to his hostess to tell her what is going on. But she and the supposed secretary of the young woman do not take it at all seriously, and he is in a quandary what to do. Then the young daughter of the house arrives and the masqueraders must unmask. When things are explained it is discovered that the two secretaries are missing, probably preparing for their elopement, and so Sir George proposes that all the guests shall hide in the shrubbery and porches of the house and surprise them. This they do and the elopement begins. The secretary drives up to the gate at the foot of the grounds in an automobile and the girl comes out on the porch to wait for him, little suspecting that she is being watched. Then Sir George proposes to Miriam that they shall slip away from the other guests, leaving them to watch the elopement and that they shall steal the other fellow's automobile and his elopement shall be theirs. Consequently, when this plan is carried out, there is a surprise party all around.
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