The Quaker Girl

The piece was popular with amateur theatre groups, particularly in Britain, from the 1920s until 1990, receiving over 250 UK productions during that period, but it has been produced only sporadically since then.

The complete show, including dialog, was revived in a staged concert with piano in July 2007 by Lyric Theatre of San Jose, California.

[2] Nathaniel and Rachel Pym are the grim and proper rulers of an early 19th-century Quaker community in an English village.

A mysterious young French lady and her not-too-bright maid Phoebe arrive to stay at Mrs. Lukyn's hotel.

Charteris has his best man with him, Tony Chute, of the American Embassy in Paris, as well as Madame Blum, a famous Parisian dressmaker.

Prudence Pym, the niece of Nathaniel and Rachel, longs for a more exciting life and someone to love ("A Quaker Girl").

Madame Blum, struck by Prudence's charmingly simple grey Quaker dress, tries to persuade her to accompany her back to Paris ("Tip Toe").

Employed as a mannequin in Madame Blum's establishment in Paris, Prudence's simple costume becomes all the rage among the women, and she herself becomes extremely popular with the young men, including Prince Carlo (who had been engaged to Princess Mathilde) and Monsieur Duhamel, a distinguished government minister.

Duhamel assumes she is trying to blackmail him into letting Mathide stay in France, but Prudence tells him that she merely wants to return the letters to their rightful owner.