An episode like this is largely a matter of taste. Chester corresponds with a girl back east that eventually leads to romance by mail. Feeling himself unattractive, Chester sends a photo of Matt to the girl, who promptly leaves Philadelphia to meet the man of her dreams. Now Chester's in a pickle and what will he do. Also, what will Matt do now that he's the intended Lothario.
Dennis Weaver shows what a consistently fine actor he was, particularly in the difficult confession scene before the large crowd. He and the girl, played by Mary Carver, also have a drawing-room scene together that could have easily become unbearable, but thanks to their mutual charm, is brought off in reasonable fashion. The script itself has no real suspense or drama, showing why writer John Meston was so badly needed, and how his artistic sense of dramatic tension helped to lift Gunsmoke to classic heights. There is, however, one passage of genuine inspiration-- that is the point at which Matt emphasizes the killing hardships of homesteading. This is a powerful topic that can bring together life on the American frontier and those popular beliefs so often distorted by TV, radio, books, etc. Too bad that unromanticized homesteading has been so infrequently dramatized. Perhaps that's because there is so little glamor or comfort in the grim desperation of trying to survive the real settling of the American West.