Hoping to save her brother from the guillotine, Marguerite St Just, now Lady Blakeney, agrees to help the French secret police discover the identity of the ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’. She artfully intercepts a communication that suggests the Pimpernel will meet his confederates in Lord Grenville’s supper-room at one o’clock that morning, and reluctantly informs Chauvelin.

Chauvelin waits in Lord Grenville’s dining-room for the ‘Scarlet Pimpernal’ to appear. However, no one turns up at the appointed hour; Chauvelin is alone, except for a sleeping Sir Percy Blakeney. Marguerite begs for Chauvelin’s assurance that her brother might yet be saved, but he relishes keeping her in fear and doubt.

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