Mrs. Barrington's House Party (1910)
All the world loves a lover, and never gets tired of a good love story: and this is a very good one, with a strange complication of affairs, which is happily set right at the proper time with a very happy ending. A young man and woman (they are necessary, of course) are in love with each other (quite natural.) The young man asks the young lady's father for his daughter. The father refuses to listen to his request, and even turns a deaf ear to her pleadings for his consent. The young folks, with the assistance of a friend, elope, get married, and keep their wedding a secret until the lady is invited to spend a "week end" at Mrs. Barrington's, to participate in the house party she is giving. The young wife manages to get Mrs. Barrington to invite her husband. Mrs. Barrington is fond of lionizing and always pleased to distinguish herself in match-making. She readily sends the young man an invitation, and when he arrives she gives him a room next to and connecting with his wife's room. Everything is arranged just to their liking, and whenever they meet in the hall they act in the usual way with newly-married couples, very affectionately. One evening they meet on the balcony of the house and lovingly converse and embrace. An old busybody who is sitting at one of the windows observes them, and, ever ready to create gossip and scandal, tells Mrs. Barrington, who decides to approach her guest and ask her what it all means. While dressing for dinner the young woman finds it impossible to properly place a pin in the back of her dress and calls on her husband in the next room, through the connecting door, and just as he has finished the pinning Mrs. Barrington knocks at the outer door of the room. The wife hurriedly pushes her husband through the intervening door and, as she closes it, her dress is caught. Mrs. Barrington enters, and as the young woman advances to greet her hostess she finds her dress held by the door. Mrs. Barrington sees her predicament and accuses her of abusing the hospitality of her home and violating common decency. At this point the husband comes from his room and explains that they are man and wife, shows Mrs. Barrington the wedding ring and places it on his wife's finger. Mrs. Barrington is delighted, and agrees to go to the young lady's father and intercede for his recognition and blessing. They all go to the father's home and win his entire approval, and at the same time Mrs. Barrington wins the father's heart and hand.
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