Moving Picture World categorized the film as a nonsense number but Normands Won in a Closet her second as director displays her burgeoning talent Mabels father the country constable is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines her ideal The young couples romance is disrupted first by two rival cutups and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mothers home In reality the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constables attentions