Exhausted after a scintillating ball, an aristocratic and very fashionable Madame returns home craving for a warm bath before retiring. Without delay, the invaluable lady's maid helps her remove the voluminous ballroom gown, and layer after layer of fine 19th-century underwear, she finally exposes the belle's Rubenesque physique. In the end, in an act of simulated nudity which vividly portrays the beauty standards of the time, the maid pours warm water from a pitcher, finally covering the dame in a robe.
—Nick Riganas