Oscar is in love with Kiki, a girl employed in the showrooms of Messrs. Lasson. He pays her a visit and is surprised by the return of the manager, whom he thought was at lunch. The girls disguise Oscar in feminine clothes, and tell the manager he is a new "trotter." He is sent with some hats to deliver to Madame Hammersmith, a manicurist, who insists upon treating the trotter kindly, and Oscar forgetting his identity unconsciously exposes his mustache to view. Madame Hammersmith incontinently subsides off her chair in a paroxysm of indignation, and Oscar takes a somersault through the open window to escape her incivilities. He makes his way back to the showroom, to find that the manicurist is already there, and has caused Kiki's dismissal. Oscar, with the gallantry which he alone knows so well how to display, assumes proprietorship over the tearful Kiki, and calmly informs the company at large that she is the future Mrs. Oscar Walker.
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