I will repay

It is Paris, 1793, 'the most seething time of that seething revolution.

No one knew in the morning if his head would still be on his shoulders in the evening, or if it would be held up by citizen Samson the headsman, for the sansculottes of Paris to see.' However, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blakeney, is still at large to rescue France's aristocrats.