This overlong piece seems to me something to sit through rather than particularly enjoy. It is mildly amusing if one wants mild amusement. Otherwise, it does not seem to me a good use of time. Based around the tricking of two silly bachelors into thinking they are at an inn rather than the house to which they were travelling, we are treated to them making fools of themselves by behaving boorishly to their host. More interestingly, we are also shown how one of them who normally becomes tongue-tied with women of his own ilk, manages to be witty and amusing with a woman he takes to be a servant but who is actually the lady to whom he had been travelling to advance his matrimonial intent. The other friend in the pair falls for another female in the household whose mother was hoping for a financial injection by her daughter marrying the son of the house.
Of course, it is all mildly amusing but not really my cup of tea. The only thing I got from it was the well-portrayed psychological phenomenon of the contextualization of shyness and awkwardness.
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