An Embarrassing Predicament (1914)

Billy Quill a bashful bookkeeper loves Marjorie Keyes the pretty stenographer Anatole the French barber is also in love with Marjorie but he is not at all bashful and makes himself a pest by declaring his love for her at every opportunity Marjorie reciprocates Billys love and gives him every opportunity to express his feelings and pop the question but Billy lacks nerve to say the fatal words