The Romance of a Poor Young Man / A Drama Adapted from the French of Octave Feuillet

The drama follows a young marquis who returns to find his family financially ruined and has assigned the remaining fortune to secure his sister's future, leaving him in reduced circumstances. Dependent on faithful household retainers and opposed by a blunt, pragmatic physician, he faces hunger, wounded pride, and the realities of diminished rank. Action shifts from Parisian drawing-rooms to provincial Brittany and traces how domestic loyalty, social appearances, and money shape personal choices. Scenes explore tests of generosity, strained relationships between masters and servants, and the quiet sacrifices demanded by honor amid changing fortunes.