Moving Picture World categorized the film as āa nonsense numberā, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabelās father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines āher idealā. The young coupleās romance is disrupted first by two rival ācut-upsā and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the motherās home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constableās attentions.