Marion Fay relates two contrasting love affairs, each involving an aristocrat and a commoner! Marion Fay, a Quaker and daughter of a City clerk is being passionately pursued by the seditious Lord Hampstead, while the other romance involves the young and beautiful Clara⌠Trollope brightly evokes the grey working lives, plain homes, blank streets, and limited horizons of the dwellers in Paradise Row, all hoping for a better tomorrowâŚ