The Scarlet Pimpernel (Percy/Marguerite)
Plain sight was Percy’s preferred method of hiding. A quiet night made the guards at Paris’s gates harder to predict. They were either drunk or asleep – Percy generally attempted to engineer the former – or they were alert, checking everything most precisely.
Percy left the Marquis de Bonnais with Tony before hurrying back into Paris by a different gate.
Marguerite awaited.
She matched him wart for wart in costume tonight. In the back of a quiet bar they pulled off each other’s disguises and washed their faces. An instant of simple honesty. Then they began assuming their fashionable attire once more.