Overview
An exceptionally capable girl, Trixie Joyce, proves a great help, to her mother, a widow with a large family of girls. They receive a proposition from Henrietta Joyce, Mrs. Joyce's wealthy sister-in-law, to take Trixie as a companion, feed and clothe her and in place of wages, send her mother an allowance sufficient to support the rest of the family. Both realize it is the solution of a hard problem, and Trixie accepts the offer. Henrietta is close-fisted and selfish in money matters, but she also has a strain of morbidly-romantic sentiment in her nature, so the largest part of Trixie's work is reading aloud to her mistress quantities of swashbuckling, mid-Victorian novels.
Production
Vitagraph Company of America
Cast & Characters
Maurice Costello
Tom Perry
Dolores Costello
Helene Costello
James Morrison
Edwina Robbins
Eulalie Jensen
Estelle Mardo
Trixie Joyce
Robert Gaillard
Thomas R. Mills
Ethel Corcoran
Directors & Crew
Robert Gaillard
Director
Maurice Costello
Director
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