Merely Mary Ann

About the show

Orphaned Mary Ann works in a South London lodging house, where she meets Lancelot, a baronet’s younger son who has abandoned inheritance to compose music. Their affection grows as she inspires his creativity, but he refuses to marry her while she is poor; after she inherits a fortune, their paths separate. Six years later, Mary Ann returns to him in her old apron, and the pair are reunited.