 The action covers a period of roughly four months—from August to November—around the time of Queen Victoria's Jubilee.Liza Kemp is an 18-year-old factory worker and the youngest of a large family, now living alone with her aging mother.Very popular with all the residents of Vere Street, Lambeth, she likes Tom, a boy her age, but not as much as he likes her, so she rejects him when he proposes.