This is another adaptation of a Pinero play in which Hay is given co-credit for dialogue and scenario. In Dandy Dick, Hay's stage persona begins to show through. There are a couple of scenes which cast allusions as to his future schoolmaster roles he will later appear in, both involve his nephew. The first see's Hay checking the boys homework and the youngster cunningly diverts Hay's attention with the three card trick involving thimbles. Hay unable to resist is drawn into the game and is easily outsmarted by the juvenile. The other is Hay's condemnation towards the boy for collecting cigarette cards which ends up with Hay being more interested in the collection than the boy.

These examples are the quintessential Hay, the figure of high responsibility, expected to lead by example but always being too weak willed, often succumbing to the temptation that lies within, which often means ending up on the losing side.

Will plays the part of Richard Jedd the village reverend, who against all his principles decides to bet on the racehorse Dandy Dick in which his sister as a half share, to try and raise the principal sum of £250 so he can restore the church spire. There are plots abound to try and dope the horse and one to try and burn down the horse's stables, for which Hay is unjustly arrested and placed into the police cells. He manages to escape with the help of his friends, and arrives at the racetrack just in time to see Dandy Dick pass the winning post.

There is a notable performance from Robert Nainby who plays Bale, a stone-deaf  parishoner who arrives at the vicarage for lunch uninvited convinced that he has been invited, and is totally unaware of the attempts to get rid of him. Each person that Nainby's character comes into contact with is left with that total look of confusion that is caused by this engaging eccentric. This part played by Nainby is a year ahead of the screen debut of Moore Marriot's Harbottle and one can see that Hay's collaboration on the dialogue draws on his Harbottle character that he developed many years previous for his stage act.