It is based on the French farce Villa Primrose by Marcel Guillemaud and Georges Berr.
[4] Setting: The Hotel Beau Rivage in Brest, France Victor Jolibeau, an artist, searches for a model for the left shoulder of a Venus he is painting.
Victor learns that his uncle is in Brest to let his villa to Fleurette Charmineuse, a Maxim girl, and gets Delphine to pose as his wife for the afternoon.
The uncle insists that Victor and Delphine take the Villa Primrose for their stay in Brest.
Alphonse objects, but as the colonel learns he has deceived him and as Victor will become an officer in the regiment in which he is only a private, he submits to the arrangement, which is to last until the uncle leaves.