Too Much Burglar (1914)

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 Joyces wealthy sisterinlaw 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 closefisted and selfish in money matters but she also has a strain of morbidlyromantic sentiment in her nature so the largest part of Trixies work is reading aloud to her mistress quantities of swashbuckling midVictorian novels