The Home Secretary

Trendel, touched by Dangerfield's gallant conduct, allows him to depart, but having let an anarchist go, he feels obliged to write to the prime minister resigning his office.

The main plot is interwoven with the romance of Trendel's nephew (and secretary) and the ingénue Esme in the face of her family's attempts to marry her off to an elderly peer.

[4] The Era thought the characters well written, and the dialogue "smart, unforced and up to date", but found the action slow until the final act.

[4] The Morning Post praised the author's skill in balancing the comic, the tender, and briefly near-tragic elements of the piece.

[6] When the piece was staged on Broadway, The New York Times found it fluently written, with "a moderate infusion of wit" and serviceable characterisation and plot.