Moving Picture World categorized the film as âa nonsense numberâ, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabelâs father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines âher idealâ. The young coupleâs romance is disrupted first by two rival âcut-upsâ and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the motherâs home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constableâs attentions.