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furtherance of sympathetic pursuits into the passive.
Upon meeting Godfrey in her home, the girl he had backed into the ashpile the evening before became suddenly enamoured of one aim in life, to be lastingly revenged upon Godfrey for the humiliation she had suffered.
To get even with Godfrey the Vengeful One decided to get rid of him, ride him out of his new job, so she played upon a natural fear of a stranger in the house, and the chances of everybody in the family getting their throats cut while they slept.
Sensing the Vengeful One's purpose her flighty sister went into an hysterical tantrum, demanding that she be allowed to keep Godfrey, and she would not be mollified until she got her way. She did, rescuing Godfrey's job. And Godfrey tried to show his gratitude by being a "good" butler.
However, between the Flighty One in love with him, unwittingly compromising him in her solicitude over his well being, a maid fluttering over him, the Vengeful One trying to get him fired, then falling in love with him, a guest recognizing him as the scion of Boston millions, a fact he did not want known, trying to be a "good" butler was indeed trying.
Despite the difficulties of being a good butler in that wacky household, Godfrey kept right on at his butling, no one suspecting why. Nor was there much curiosity on that score. He looked and acted as though he needed a job badly, and his position as a menial dictated a passive conduct, so it was mainly up to the Vengeful One and her Flighty Sister to keep suspense up until Godfrey's college chum nearly let the cat out of the bag. Up to that point it was an extremely active furtherance of selfishness that gave the play its grip. Then mystery took hold. "Who," the audience asked, "was Godfrey?"
Then to the mystery of Godfrey's identity, and why one of his appointments should be butling, and why he had been living on the city dump, and how the pearls got into the bedsheets, let us add that other potent suspense building factor.
The Flighty One was clearly in love with Godfrey. But she was flighty; about as much help to him as the father in The Three Smart Girls, and if to the uncer
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