In this short Keystone film, Chaplin is instead a rich, upper-class gentleman (Lord Helpus) whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend (played by Minta Durfee) sees him being embraced by her maid and jumps to the wrong conclusion.

Not long afterward, the girlfriend's gardener and maid explain to Minta that Lord Helpus was not flirting at all.

upon reading it, Lord Helpus flies into a panic and summons an ambulance to help him before he dies from the fatal dose of poison.

There is no danger of Lord Helpus expiring: His butler had stealthily switched the liquid in the glass to harmless water.

Chaplin's romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.