Mrs. Thomas only sees visitors one day a week. In his campaign to sabotage his position as her servant, Charlie welcomes in a Lord Cutanrun one afternoon when Mrs. Thomas is unprepared to see visitors and unpresentable. In her shock, she drops a bowl of dirty wash water on the lord. At dinner the next night, Charlie “accidentally” catches his sleeve on Mrs. Thomas’s wig and pulls it off in front of the guests. Next, he hides the cook’s cat, Tom, in a jar. The cat springs out when Mrs. Thomas opens the jar, causing her to drop her lamp, setting the cat and the carpet on fire. After this string of incidents, Charlie is dismissed from his service at the Thomas residence, much to his relief.

Mrs. Ellis and her daughter Caddy have been working to prepare the house for the Garies. One day, Charlie is tasked with bringing Caddy her supper at the house that she is preparing. Along the way, he stops and plays marbles with some of the boys. When he gives Caddy the kettle, she is angry to see that it is full of kitchen scraps, not her favorite dish.