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The play unfolds in a city flower shop where two young women fill the stage with cheerful song, drawing both laughter and a hostile reaction from a wealthy foreign lodger who seeks to stop their music. A parallel financial emergency threatens a foster father, prompting offers of pawned keepsakes and schemes to raise money. Comic misunderstandings, language barriers, and class contrasts drive the action as the lord's attempts to suppress singing collide with the singers' rural openness, exposing tensions between money, art, and social power in a brief, music-filled one-act comedy.
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