About this story
In London the cleverest woman in Europe is married to the stupidest man in it, and lately she is being blackmailed with her brother's life. Orczy invented the secret-identity hero here: the mask, the drawl, the little red flower. You are Marguerite St Just, ordered to hunt the Pimpernel down — and what you uncover, you decide who hears.
Who you’ll meet
Sir Percy the fop, and the plain-coated second self behind him.
How it opens
Rain followed your coach into the yard of the Fisherman's Rest.
The de Tournay family and their English escorts had arrived before you.
Mr JellybandMy lady, the room is hardly prepared for another meeting.
Comtesse de TournaySuzanne, you will not greet that woman.
Sir Andrew FfoulkesMadame, this house has received all of us as friends.
Comtesse de TournayEngland permits me to choose my daughter's friends.