This touching and thought-provoking romance from British novelist Marie Corelli was a blockbuster bestseller, with a record-breaking 100,000 copies sold in a single day. Millionaire David Helmsley decides he's had enough of the trappings of his cushy existence and disappears, assuming the identity of a lowly street tramp. A chance encounter with a kind woman, Mary Deane, changes his jaundiced view of the world.