Overview
Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that the garment belongs to her fiancé, a lord. Just wait, Amanda boasts, one day his lordship will return for his wash — and for her.
Director and cast
- Jack Dillon Director
- Mary Pickford as Amanda Afflick
- Albert Austin as Horace Greensmith
- Harold Goodwin as Benjamin Pillsbury Jones
- Rose Dione as Madame Jeanne Gallifilet Didier (as Rosa Dione)
- Darwin Karr as The Archduke
- Taylor N. Duncan as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
- Joan Marsh as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
- Nadyne Montgomery as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
- Theodore Roberts as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
- Hal Wilson as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
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