It's fairly typical flirting in this comedy, as pretty Vivian Prescott is torn between Eddie Dillon (who would take over the Biograph comedy unit after Sennett departed for Keystone) and unhappy barber Mack Sennett, who can't compete on those terms with a rich dude, at least until he rescues her from the clutches of the dastardly fellow and his chauffeured car. Sennett tosses Dillon and his driver out and slips a ring on the lady's finger.
Sennett's Biographs are much more naturalistic and restrained than his work at Keystone. Part may have been that his wild slapstick may have been tough to get by the bosses -- even though Griffith directed THE CURTAIN POLE from Sennett's script in 1908 -- but I suspect had more to do with the wardrobe department. A clown, ran the understandings of the time, had to look bizarre, and given that they were costuming the cast from the same department as Griffith, they wore normal clothes in which people looked good. Decent for 1911 but not a patch on what Sennett would produce on his own.