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sympathizes with her. When she is arrested, Charlie unsuccessfully tries to take the blame. Then he enters a restaurant, orders everything in sight, and unable to pay the bill, achieves his purpose of getting arrested. On the way to the jail he encounters the girl again, becomes interested, and decides to stay out of jail. The two break out of the patrol wagon together.
After a search they find a shack on the water front with a kennel beside it.
Though a beam falls on Charlie's head and a table collapses when he leans on it, they dub the place "Paradise." Charlie sleeps outside in the dog house. In the morning he poises gracefully and dives into his "swimming pool" — which turns out to be a six-inch puddle.
More or less accidentally, Charlie gets a job as a department store night watchman — a job that is finally to his liking. He admits the shivering girl, wraps her in an ermine coat borrowed from a mannequin, and puts her to sleep in a store bed. Among other comic business is a skating act performed blindfold for the girl's amusement and instruction, that ends in near neck-breaking teetering before a broken railing. He sees the yawning abyss in time and hobbles away in panic.
Burglars — unemployed factory workers break in and find a sympathetic watchman. But his sympathy earns him another jail term.
While he is in, the girl gets a job dancing in a cabaret. On his release she gets him a job there as a waiter. Then follows: "Now well get a real home" parody of smug suburban domesticity with the husband returning from work to be welcomed by his little housewife in their ideal home. But it is only a vision. In one of the restaurant scenes, Charlie, trying to bring a roast duck to an impatient and irate diner across the crowded dance floor, is pushed about by the dancers and held back from his destination. Tossed through the mob like a football, the