Fred's mother-in-law, on a lecture tour, visits them. Fred has a date at the club and looks for some way to get away from home and his mother-in-law. He feigns illness and mother makes him go to bed. He tries to sneak out but can't. He thee starts screaming as if in agony, and mother gives him some pills. He yells that he is poisoned and she sends for a doctor. The medico pumps him out with a stomach pump and although evidently not poisoned, the treatment he received was enough to keep him in bed for quite a while. Mother, seeing her darling son-in-law suffering such agony, determines to give up her lecture tour and nurse Fred herself, thereby making his misery complete.
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