The Scarlet Pimpernel  - Emmuska Orczy

I´ve just spent the last 40+ pages in "The Fisherman´s Rest", an inn in Dover and I´m thoroughly enjoying this story so far. And I have to applaud the author for having the audacity to spent a huge amount of time in the same setting. 

 

Marguerite, or, as I like to call her, the brain ... what is up with her? It´s pretty obvious that she is married to a complete moron, which makes me wonder if she had some ulterior motive for marrying that specific specimen of the male sex.