Patience

About the show

At Castle Bunthorne, maidens adore the aesthetic poet Bunthorne, though he loves the dairy maid Patience, who has never been in love. Their former suitors, officers of the Dragoons, return and are rejected. Patience resolves to love Bunthorne selflessly, but when the poet Archibald Grosvenor arrives, the maidens transfer their devotion to him. Grosvenor agrees to become commonplace to escape their attention; the maidens then return to their former fiancés, Patience agrees to marry Grosvenor, and Lady Jane pairs with the Duke of Dunstable, leaving Bunthorne alone.