Good story. Margaret's father, a cleric, stubbornly refuses to go along with his new superior. They move north to manufacturing town based on Manchester. London ways v Manchester ways. Education, refinement v. business and striving. Thornton runs the mill. Hard man, anti union, but with integrity as he sees it. Margaret dislikes his hard ways, but is drawn to him. Strike. Thornton confronts workers. M goes out on balcony and is hit by rock. Hitting a woman puts the strikers into a weak position; they capitulate. The man who threw the rock is ostracized and kills himself. Strike leader takes over his family. M. brother is a seaman wanted for mutiny.He sneaks back to see his mother before she dies. He's recognized, a fight, the other man dies. What a mess!