An old swell enters a pastry cook's shop. Seduced by the charms of the pastry cook's wife, he indulges in familiarities which the latter accepts only because she does not wish to displease a customer. But the husband turns up, beating up cream, and seeing the old dude's ways, requests him to leave. The latter is so much disturbed that he takes the wrong door and goes out through the kitchen thinking he is going out of the shop. The pastry cook takes this opportunity of pouring the cream into the customer's hat which stood upon a table. The old swell returns to the shop, puts on his hat and receives the whole of its contents upon his head and shoulders. Blinded and completely astonished he knocks down a table as he runs away, but comes back again to complain of this unheard of treatment.
—Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé