Peggy's Invitation (1913)

• 74%
• 1913
• Drama
• Romance
• James Durkin
• Marguerite Snow
• Carey L. Hastings
• Lila Chester

A society woman who lives in the suburbs near the sea had laid her plans to insure the marriage of her daughter to a wealthy young banker. The banker accepted an invitation to spend a weekend at her home, and was also to be one of the guests at a masquerade party the mother was to give. To secure novelty the woman instead of issuing regular invitations, had them printed on the back of masks, so that each guest would bring his mask and invitation at the same time. The servant, whose duty it was to distribute the invitations, lost one of them and did not discover it until later. The lost invitation was found by a poor fisher girl, who, yielding to a sudden impulse, donned the mask on the night of the party and freely mingled with the other guests. It happened that the daughter of the house had hoped to secure the attention of the young banker, and she told him that she had arranged to be dressed as a beggar maid. This led to a natural mistake and the banker devoted all his time to the real beggar maid, with whom he fell more and more in love. His mistake was not discovered until the guests unmasked at midnight, and then a servant told the society girl that the fisher maid had obtruded there uninvited. At the same time the girl's mother declared that she had been robbed of one of her jewels and suspicion naturally fell upon the poor girl. The young banker warmly defended her and by his action won her love and gratitude. The society girl soon found that her plans to marry the banker had utterly failed, for in course of time the rich man and the girl became man and wife.