Mollie's Substitute Husband

A young small-town school principal is swept into urban reform politics after an evening in the city brings him into contact with a fearless reformer, a worldly socialite, and a circle of ambitious civic actors. Mistaken identities and a scheme to provide a substitute husband embroil him in dinners, council intrigues, telegrams, and detective probes as rival interests jockey around a senator and a controversial ordinance. Comic complications, questions of motive and virtue, and social-class contrasts drive a series of councils and confrontations that test loyalties and culminate in a decisive personal and public resolution centered on Mollie June.