Jax Reads: The Scarlet Pimpernel - Chapter 10: In the Opera Box
0While attending (along with most of the rest of London society, fashionable and plebeian alike) a performance of Glück’s opera Orpheus, Marguerite is approached by Chauvelin, who tells her of the secret documents he has possessed and warns her that her brother Armand is in danger. One of the papers is a letter penned by Armand to Sir Ffoulkes. The revelation that her brother is in league with the Scarlet Pimpernel stuns Marguerite. Chauvelin offers Marguerite a “free pardon” for her brother if she will assist him, as he requested previously, in identifying and stopping the Pimpernel. He asks her to attend Lord Grenville’s post-performance ball, where he thinks Ffoulkes and Dewhurst will meet their secret leader. He will give her Armand’s incriminating letter if she will give him her aid. Marguerite seems on the precipice of agreeing to help when Sir Percy enters the box, interrupting the conversation.