The Constant Maid

About the show

Gentleman Hartwell, financially ruined, loves Frances. Her mother Bellamy pretends to love Hartwell to test him, while Frances’s nurse and a rival suitor set a trap that Hartwell avoids by disguising himself. A series of mistaken identities leads to his reconciliation with Frances. In a subplot, Playfair rescues the niece of a usurer through a trick involving a false king and marries her.