Queenie

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Simon Pepper lives as a miserly recluse since the death of his young wife thirty years earlier. He is attended by his secretary and lookalike Abner Quigley, and housekeeper Pansy Pooley, who hires her niece, Queenie, as her assistant. Believing she would be living with a wealthy aunt, Queenie is disillusioned with her new job, although she is befriended by Vivian Van Winkle, the heir to a noodle fortune and an amateur poet known as "Cocobola." Despite orders to avoid Simon, Queenie visits his room and he takes a liking to her. One evening, the old man dons Abner's coat and disappears. Abner impersonates his employer and marries Pansy, after which they attempt to join high society. Simon returns from an involuntary ocean voyage as Queenie is about to enter a forced marriage to Count Michael. Vivian then deposes the groom and marries Queenie. Pansy and Abner are exposed as impostors and return to their old jobs.