Mirandy Smiles (1918)

Mirandy Judkins works as a scrub lady in the Grand Opera House in order to ease her mother's burden of rearing six children. One of the musicians, Teddy Lawrence, is also the organist at St. Mark's Church, and he invites Mirandy to hear him play one Sunday. At the church, Mirandy befriends Sunday-school teacher Rose White, who loves the minister, John Kennedy, and Rose secures for Mirandy the job of washing the church surplices. Rose promises to send the minister a written reply to his marriage proposal, but the note that she pins to the newly-washed surplice is lost. Eventually the note is found and the two become engaged, just as Mrs. Judkins discovers that she has inherited a large sum of money. Mirandy, who has fallen in love with Teddy, is reluctant to move to the country with her mother, but he convinces her to go away to school and then return to him as his fiancée.