The Accomplished Mrs. Thompson

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During his wife's absence abroad, Dick Osborne's Aunt Sarah settles their new house for them and employs a housekeeper, and Dick's friend John tells him how his wife disappeared after they quarreled and he can find no trace of her. Dick tries to brace him up and invites him out to the new house, when Osborne's bride arrives. Dick and his wife find their new home in charge of a beautiful, elegantly-gowned woman, who apparently does not know her place. She joins in all conversations, passes the cigarettes around, and displays so much familiarity with Dick that Mrs. Osborne's jealousy is aroused. She insists that the housekeeper must go and her husband is summoning sufficient nerve to fire her when John walks in. Dick is almost paralyzed when he sees his friend talking very confidentially to the housekeeper, embrace and kiss her. He is still puzzling over it when he sees John and the housekeeper leave the house without a word. Next morning. Dick and his wife see them riding in an automobile and later find a note saying, "I left my husband some time ago, secured a position as your housekeeper, and having adjusted our differences, we are now happily reunited." Betty now understands the whole affair, humbly begs her husband's forgiveness and both laugh heartily over their experience with the "Accomplished Mrs. Thompson."