Faint Hearts

In a labyrinth of domestic anxiety, a pavid suitor ventures into the lion’s den—the study of a formidable judge—to solicit his daughter’s hand in marriage. This delicate mission of romantic supplication is abruptly derailed when the jurist, steeped in the paranoia of his profession, misconstrues the young man’s stammering trepidation for the sinister intent of a vengeful litigant. What follows is a quintessential silent-era comedy of errors, where the vocabulary of love is misinterpreted as the rhetoric of retribution, forcing our bashful protagonist to navigate a gauntlet of judicial fury and slapstick peril to prove his heart is as soft as his spine is weak.