A satire of the aesthetic movement of the late 19th century, Patience drops us in the center of the "civil war" between the Maidens and the Dragoons, to whom they are to marry. The Maidens have left the cold Dragoons to seek the affection of Reginald Bunthorne, a vulgar and pompous aesthetic poet. Bunthorne meanwhile has set his sights set on winning the heart of the milkmaid, Patience, who is even more repulsed by him than she is by the idea of being in love. But with the return of Archibald Grosvenor, both the childhood friend and true love of Patience, as well as a poet of the utmost perfection, Bunthorne and the Dragoons are faced with a new rival.

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