Based loosely on the play David Garrick,[1] the story concerns a young woman from a noble family, who falls in love with an actor.

Mrs. Alington, a widow, is eagerly anticipating the return of her naval lieutenant son, Richard, whom she has not seen for ten years.

Six months before the present time, Mrs. Alington had sent her son a photograph of Betty, and the young lieutenant had fallen in love with the girl depicted.

Betty also recognises the man she loves, mistaking him for Beverley, who has been playing a sailor's part and wearing the same uniform.

[4] Another chorus girl in the show, May Gates, married a man calling himself Baron Von Ditton, of Norway,[5] although the title appears to have been fictitious.