Mabel McKay is querulous and vain. And she insists she looks like the beautiful movie star, Martha Mason, whose histrionics inspire Mrs. McKay to bouts of sobbing and fainting and posing. In her mind, she's far too good for her dull husband, who loves to putter around in the garden and go to lodge meetings. Lucky thing about the garden, though. Mr. McKay has just dug a nice, big hole in the backyard. And that gives the selfish Mrs. McKay a devious idea.
—J. Spurlin