Diana of Dobson's

Drapery Emporium, a clothing store outside of London. The unexpected and rather modest legacy of a distant relative provides her a brief window of escape. Diana, yearning for a life of luxury and power, extravagantly decides to treat herself to “a crowded hour of glorious life.” Passing herself off as a wealthy widow on holiday in Switzerland, she attracts the attention of an undisciplined, but good-hearted gent who mistakenly believes that Diana might offer a way out of his own straitened circumstances. At the end of her ‘hour’ when her legacy has been spent, the truth comes out and the sparks fly. Diana is left alone to return to the drudgery that she was so eager to escape.