He knows that Peter cannot pay the money and proposes a deal: The bill will be settled if Ernst becomes engaged to Graabe's daughter Sophie.
Ernst, in turn, is not allowed to reveal Jesta's prank and introduces her to her father's estate as his friend "Burdock", a student.
She fails at skat, has to drink grog and smoke cigars and is supposed to share a bedroom with Ernst, whereupon she takes refuge in Peter's study with a pillow and spends the night there.
Further embarrassments follow the next day as well: Jesta is forced to ride a horse and barely escapes a wig cut at the barber's, but has to be shaved.
Peter and Graabe try to persuade her to go swimming with the men, but Jesta is able to escape in time and also prevent an intimate scene between Ernst and Sophie at the last second.
After The Dance of Death, The General's Children, When the Mask Falls and Girls Without a Fatherland, it was the fifth part of the 1912-13 Nielsen & Gad series.
[3] Urban Gad's excursion into the comic field was also praised: He [...] has this time let his spotlight play on life's brighter side and picked out a slice of sunny milieu with the hand of the master.
He has given the characters of his comedy a good dose of splendid humour and has endowed his heroine, embodied by Asta Nielsen, with this quality to such a rich extent that the effect on the audience could not fail to be felt.The thrilling plot, the rich abundance of situational comedy, the warm, pulsating life that flows through the delightful three-act play will make 'Youth and Madness' a film creation that will fully satisfy every theatregoer and leave him with the consciousness of having enjoyed himself heartily.In 1928, Asta Nielsen herself retrospectively described Youth and Folly as "a naïve, but jocular comedy, wherein I, as a young girl in men's clothes, go out on adventures with an enterprising uncle.