The Girl Who Stayed At Home

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

This is an old-fashioned domestic melodrama and its only connection with the War is that the hero enlists and returns wounded in the nick of time: he might have gone anywhere else Mary, the heroine, had a sister, now deceased, who was secretly married to the son of the local baronet. A child was born and is looked after by Mary, who foolishly promised the baronet not to tell. Potter, her step-father (1) steals the baronet's will, with certificate and so forth, entrusted to Mary, and (2) tells her husband that the child is hers and she the baronet's son's mistress, and of course her husband, being also the hero, immediately 'tumbles' to the falsehood, and goes to the War, after denouncing his wife. The baronet's son's cousin, in league with the step-father, comes into the title and property, to the exclusion of the child, the rightful heir; and troubles thicken upon Mary, alleviated as far as possible by a comic pair of lovers. However, the hero returns, having gleaned the truth from the dying baronet's son, and the Will and so forth being found, wickedness is frustrated and virtue made happy. There is no harm in the thing. Recommended for license. G. S. Street.