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A spirited, self-reliant professor's daughter elects to support an impractical, penniless artist and to keep house for him and her absent-minded father, creating an unconventional domestic trio. The narrative follows her pragmatic interventions as she balances financial and emotional care, mediates quarrels, and fosters the artist's ambitions while preserving her independence. Scenes blend light social satire and romantic comedy, examining modern ideas of success, gender roles, and artistic idealism through episodic misunderstandings, theatrical endeavors, and the heroine's steady, witty diplomacy.
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