The film lost $222,000 at the box office and was Katharine Hepburn's third flop in a row, after Sylvia Scarlett (1935) and Marie Stuart (1936). Her film after this was the flop Pour un baiser (1937). A survey of exhibitors declared her "box office poison" in 1938.
The book of acceptable female behavior that Miss Piper reads to Pamela and her sister is "The Daughters of England" by Sarah Stickney Ellis.
The Victorian era took mourning into a high art form. Door wreaths, clothing, note cards, and even hand soap all bore the darkness of the deceased
Florence Rice was in a cast list in a 1936 Hollywood Reporter article, but she was not seen in the film.