Albert's plan works, and the night of the party finds George in the castle masquerading as a waiter. To his alarm, he is approached by Reggie and asked to get some lemonade for Alice Faraday. Fortunately, Reggie is a bit tipsy because he's been downing alcohol, trying to screw his courage up enough to propose to Alice. He confusedly tries to find out if this waiter is his erstwhile golf partner. When George solemnly denies knowing him, Reggie assumes that he must be a lot drunker than he thought and totters back to Alice's side. In view of his befuddlement, Alice also concludes that Reggie must have had too much to drink. Rather than giving her a disgust of him, Alice's protective instincts are roused and she decides that Reggie needs a good woman to take care of him.
George then has a visit from Albert, who had delivered his secondary note to Maud. He is there to bring Maud's reply letter, which tells George that she does need his help and will try to think of a way to get to see him. Albert, due to his ticket in the Maud marriage lottery, has a vested interest in having George's romantic efforts succeed. He suggests to George a way that he can see Maud: the castle is hiring extra serving staff for Percy's coming of age party. George can apply for a job, and Albert will tell the housekeeper that he is his cousin from America to give him an in. Thinking it over, George decides that this isn't a bad idea and agrees. Albert's plan works, and the night of the party finds George in the castle masquerading as a waiter. To his alarm, he is approached by Reggie and asked to get some lemonade for Alice Faraday. Fortunately, Reggie is a bit tipsy because he's been downing alcohol, trying to screw his courage up enough to propose to Alice. He confusedly tries to find out if this waiter is his erstwhile golf partner. When George solemnly denies knowing him, Reggie assumes that he must be a lot drunker than he thought and totters back to Alice's side. In view of his befuddlement, Alice also concludes that Reggie must have had too much to drink. Rather than giving her a disgust of him, Alice's protective instincts are roused and she decides that Reggie needs a good woman to take care of him. Meanwhile, Albert has arranged for George to meet with Maud in an empty room in the castle. When he gets there, George realizes he was in this room while on the castle tour: it's the room which has the lover's leap balcony. Maud arrives, but they barely have enough time to greet each other when another one of her suitors comes looking for her. George slips out onto the balcony and to his embarrassment, has to listen to the other man proposing to Maud. She refuses him, and the spurned swain announces his intention to go out onto the balcony. Panicking at the thought of being found there, George contemplates doing the historic lover's leap but, looking over the edge, quickly decides against it. Fortunately, the ever- inventive Albert has rushed upstairs to Reggie's bedroom and knotted his sheets; he drops the sheet-rope out the window to George, who clambers up just in time to avoid Maud's rejected suitor. George is making his escape down the stairs, but is stopped by Percy who, assuming George is a waiter, tells him to bring him a drink. Falling back into character, George does so, but startles Percy by calling him "sir" instead of "my lord." It's then Percy realizes that the waiter looks a great deal like the man he had the dust-up with in Piccadilly. He concludes, however, that this is impossible. He is further reassured later when he asks Keggs, who tells him George is Albert's cousin from America. This conversation has quite the opposite effect on Keggs, however. Knowing Albert's scheming, dishonest nature, he immediately suspects the boy has been up to some skulduggery. He tracks the boy down and tricks him into admitting he got George into the house by calling him his cousin. Keggs uses this knowledge to blackmail Albert into trading his lottery ticket for an unknown suitor for Kegg's Reggie ticket. Albert, though resentful, immediately determines to do everything he can to ensure that Maud marries Reggie. To this end, he starts writing anonymous letters to Reggie giving him advice on wooing his intended. Unfortunately for Albert, when he gets the letters, Reggie assumes that they are referring to his pursuit of Alice and happily uses the advice when approaching her. Meanwhile, George, his attempt to see Maud stymied, has returned to his cottage. He is unaware that Albert has switched sides, assuming that the boy is still in his corner.
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