I Will Repay guide

Summary

Characters

• CharlotteAlso CordayOtherFrom Chapter 1
• MaratGatekeeperFrom Chapter 1
• MerlinVillainFrom Chapter 1
• AnneAlso MieSuitorFrom Chapter 1
• Madame DéroulèdeHelperFrom Chapter 1
• PercyAlso Pimpernel, BlakeneyHelperFrom Chapter 1
• TinvilleAlso FoucquierVillainFrom Chapter 1
• PaulLoveFrom Chapter 1
• JulietteAlso MarnyLeadFrom Chapter 2
• PétronelleHelperFrom Chapter 2
• SanterreGatekeeperFrom Chapter 2
• Louis CapetOtherFrom Chapter 10
• LenoirVillainFrom Chapter 20
• General CustineOtherFrom Chapter 20
• Lord HastingsHelperFrom Chapter 22

Chapter by chapter

Storylines

• Revolutionary authorities imprison and execute successive groups, while Percy rescues intended victims from their power.

  • Further dispersal, imprisonment and killing extend the authorities' violence; Déroulède's unsuccessful appeal for Charlotte shows the limits of intervention. These events establish no further action by Percy.
  • Percy's assistance to French people escaping revolutionary persecution is further reported.
  • Percy continues rescuing endangered people, escapes Chauvelin's capture attempt, and prepares to divert the government and save the Queen's would-be rescuers.
  • The Law of the Suspect extends exposure to punishment to words, looks and gestures, while hostility towards the Scarlet Pimpernel intensifies.
  • The chapter recounts denunciations and executions that consume both the authorities' victims and rival revolutionaries.
  • The authorities try thirty-five political prisoners and convict thirty; Tinville receives praise and takes satisfaction in the prosecutions.
  • The tribunal continues processing accused people and imposing death, galley service and detention.
  • Paul's confession and the discoveries in Juliette's bedroom expose both defendants to prosecution as conspirators against the Republic.
  • The tribunal imprisons Paul and condemns both him and Juliette to death; they leave under armed escort.
  • Percy's party frees Paul and Juliette from custody, but they must still escape Paris before the authorities can recapture and execute them.
  • Percy turns the pursuing crowd into the means of passing the guarded city gates; the escaping party subsequently enters Père Lachaise.

• Anne depends on Madame Déroulède and receives her continuing care.

• The street mob targets Juliette with abuse, theft and physical violence, then attempts to seize her from Paul's protection.

  • Juliette's completed rescue and subsequent comfortable awakening inside the house establish that the immediate assault has ended.

• Juliette seeks safety from the mob by appealing to Paul and taking refuge inside his house; immediate rescue does not settle the threat outside.

  • Juliette has secured refuge and household care. The retrospective account also reveals that she deliberately provoked the danger to obtain Déroulède's intervention.

• Paul becomes Juliette's rescuer and protector; she accepts his guidance and fears that the mob has surrounded him.

  • Juliette accepts the refuge Déroulède provides, but the retrospective events reveal that she anticipated and manipulated his protective response while pursuing revenge against him.
  • Paul disperses the mob peacefully, secures Juliette's agreement to stay, brings her nurse to her and extends his protection to shelter and a proposed escape.
  • Learning that Juliette is the sister of the man he killed strengthens Paul's wish to protect her; he welcomes the opportunity to save her.
  • Paul seeks Juliette out because he fears trouble at the barrier and secures her and Pétronelle's entry into Paris with passes.
  • Paul recognizes that discovery would endanger Juliette as well as himself and determines not to betray her concealment.
  • Paul fears for Juliette's safety, attends to her apparent distress and continues to shelter her.
  • Their renewed mutual trust supports Paul's commitment to keep Juliette beside him throughout the escape.
  • Juliette declares that Paul's presence keeps her from fear, and her protectors shield her from the crowd.

• Paul sends Juliette upstairs to his mother while he stays at the entrance to prevent the mob from entering and dragging her out.

  • The successful rescue and Juliette's secure reception in the household establish the protective plan's immediate outcome, although the confrontation at the entrance is not detailed.

• Madame Déroulède and Anne welcome Juliette into the household and provide care that makes her comfortable and happy.

  • Juliette exchanges personal information with Anne, accepts her practical care and joins the family; their gentleness moves her and she enjoys the household despite herself.

• Déroulède's rescued guest has sworn revenge against him and deliberately engineered the danger that brought her under his protection.

  • Juliette remains under Paul's protection with her revenge purpose concealed. Giving her full name produces no recognition she can perceive, which she interprets as his forgetting.
  • Juliette reveals her family identity, prompting Paul to probe her knowledge of the duel. He apparently concludes that she does not know he killed her brother, leaving her revenge purpose concealed.
  • Paul intends to disclose his responsibility for her brother's death, while Juliette privately renews her revenge purpose and sees the day's discoveries as a means to it.
  • Anne infers that Juliette staged her rescue and tells Percy that she suspects treason against Paul. The engineered encounter is suspected, but Juliette's revenge oath remains undisclosed.
  • Her concealed revenge commitment becomes a covert act against Paul: she exploits what she overheard, carries out a concealed denunciation, and deposits it without any recorded disclosure to him.
  • Juliette's concealed hostility has become an actual denunciation offering proofs, while Paul declares love without any recorded discovery of her betrayal.
  • Merlin possesses her denunciation and treats Juliette as its author, but misconstrues her motive; she realizes he has received it.
  • Paul credits Juliette with saving him without learning of her denunciation; her horror at her betrayal confirms the concealed breach beneath his gratitude.
  • Juliette's betrayal is exposed to Paul and confirmed to Anne, ending its concealment from them.

• Juliette seeks to fulfil her oath to God and her father by avenging her brother against Déroulède; Charlotte's example renews her resolve.

  • Juliette interprets her continued access to Paul as God's will, and his apparent forgetting of her family's bloody past arouses renewed wrath.
  • Her brother's death and family memories renew her pain; shame at her sympathy for Paul gives way to interpreting her discoveries as providential means of revenge.
  • Juliette renews her oath, interprets the overheard conspiracy as a divinely supplied opportunity, and submits a denunciation that compromises Paul's safety. His death, ruin or dishonour has not yet occurred.
  • Although her denunciation has put revenge in motion, remorse and acknowledged love obstruct her commitment; her attempt to renew the oath meets an experienced divine answer reserving vengeance to God.
  • Juliette repudiates revenge and commits to saving Paul, abandoning rather than fulfilling her goal.

• Juliette's obligation to pursue revenge encounters evidence of Déroulède's courage, compassion and chivalry, which she recognizes and admires.

  • The household's gentleness unsettles Juliette, and Paul's further kindness accompanies happiness she feels despite herself; her renewed anger subsequently subsides.
  • Juliette interprets Paul's hospitality as indifference to his wrong against her family, while Paul privately welcomes the chance to save her. His protection continues under sharply divergent interpretations.
  • Paul's remorse, pity and willingness to risk himself deepen Juliette's sympathy and penitence, while her family obligation drives her back toward revenge.
  • Juliette attempts to suppress the oath's memory and exclude personal feeling from her punishment of Paul. Awareness of innocent dependants' suffering complicates her resolve, but she ultimately carries out the denunciation.
  • Her conflict deepens from admiration against duty into remorse and love against an oath she still tries to uphold.
  • Juliette rejects the revenge obligation that opposed her attachment to Paul and acts to protect him.

• Juliette seeks religious seclusion and release from her revenge oath, but obtains no dispensation; the Archbishop's death convinces her that God requires its fulfilment.

  • Earlier unanswered prayer is recalled, but Juliette now experiences an answer challenging her personal obligation to exact vengeance; no actual seclusion or settled release is established.

• Juliette watches Déroulède's house, then deliberately provokes danger outside it, expecting his chivalry to draw him to her rescue.

  • Her engineered rescue has secured entry into Paul's household and an agreed continued stay.

• Anne loves Paul, as Juliette infers from Anne's declared affection and conduct.

  • Anne's response to Paul's reassurance and her promise to perform any service he wants further reveal her attachment; her bitterness over Juliette's beauty exposes its vulnerability.
  • Percy recognises Anne's love for Paul; she accepts that Paul loves Juliette and acknowledges that his affection for herself has been pity.
  • Anne's concealed jealousy becomes known to Paul and Percy, exposing the attachment behind her distress.

• Juliette wants to know Paul better.

  • Juliette learns about Paul's burden of conscience, his account of her brother's death, his new office, his intentions toward the Queen and his impending departure.

• Paul arranges for Juliette to remain safely in his house while he informs Pétronelle; he brings Pétronelle back and offers both women shelter until the danger passes.

  • Paul renews his commitment to shelter Juliette, and Juliette and Pétronelle retire together within the household.
  • Juliette proposes returning to her lodgings with Pétronelle, but Paul dissuades her from leaving his mother's household.

• Paul proposes that Juliette escape to England with the Scarlet Pimpernel's guidance.

  • Anne reports Paul's repeated proposals that Juliette emigrate and her continued residence despite opportunities to leave; no departure is secured.
  • Paul has arranged passports and Percy-assisted embarkation, but Juliette refuses his assistance and insists on managing with Pétronelle independently.
  • Juliette is freed and begins an escape under Percy's guidance; departure from Paris and passage to England remain unfinished.
  • Percy's guidance brings Juliette safely out of revolutionary danger and aboard the Daydream bound for England.

• Anne's promise to serve Paul and be kind to Juliette conflicts with her bitterness over Juliette's beauty and her own anticipated humiliation.

  • Anne seeks separation from her rival and suffers bitter disappointment, yet commits to watching over Paul after accepting that he loves Juliette.
  • Anne voices her fears about Paul's trust in dangerous people, then feels ashamed that she has exposed her jealousy, condemns her own conduct and withdraws.
  • Anne acts on her jealousy to expose Juliette, but the resulting devastation of Paul turns her triumph into misery and pity.
  • Anne's repentance and boundless sympathy overcome the bitterness that obstructed her kindness toward Juliette.

• Paul responds to Anne's self-condemnation with sadness and acceptance, reassuring her and eliciting renewed willingness to serve him.

  • Paul shows concern for Anne's safety and urges her to remember the distress her outings cause; Anne subsequently interprets his response as pity and shuts herself away.
  • Paul remains concerned for Anne and entrusts his mother's care to her; Anne then recognizes his suffering and feels his reproach.

• Juliette finds happiness in Paul's company and feels sympathy for him, but resents his patronizing manner; her hurtful reply brings remorse and a wish to acknowledge his kindness.

  • Juliette's attachment becomes consciously recognized love, accompanied by pleasure in Paul's touch and overwhelming remorse for betraying him.
  • Their intimacy culminates in Paul's declaration of love and shared happiness, while Juliette temporarily forgets her oath and betrayal.

• Paul accepts the governorship of the Conciergerie and tells Juliette that he will leave tomorrow night.

  • Paul confirms that he has obtained the governorship and plans to move into the prison tomorrow, arranging his household's departure before proceeding.
  • Paul confirms that his departure is imminent and tells Juliette that he will spend a month in charge of Marie Antoinette at the Conciergerie.

• Paul intends to help Marie Antoinette if possible and refuses to condemn her; Juliette believes his undertaking will end in success or death.

  • Paul reaffirms his commitment despite Percy's objections and specifies the means of rescue, retaining written instructions and collecting escape passports.
  • The official investigation and continuing house search obstruct Paul's undertaking for the Queen.

• Percy intends to distract the revolutionary government, attract blame for the Queen's rescue attempt, and secure the conspirators' escape if it fails; he promises reasonable assistance and agrees to reconsider helping the rescue itself.

  • Percy provides concrete assistance with the dependants' evacuation and remains in Paris intending to secure Paul's escape.

• Paul persists in attempting the Queen's rescue despite Percy's objections and assessment of pervasive suspicion in Paris; he also refuses Percy's proposed destruction of the incriminating papers.

  • Percy again urges destruction of the papers without obtaining Paul's agreement, then requests custody. Paul permits reading only in his presence; Percy ultimately withdraws his request and agrees Paul should retain them.
  • The danger surrounding Paul's rescue undertaking becomes concrete when Juliette uses her knowledge of the conversation to denounce him, compromising his safety from trial and execution.
  • The retained papers become an immediate danger during an authorized investigation; Paul abandons his attempt to conceal them personally and submits to the searches.
  • The papers Paul previously refused to destroy have now been burned by Juliette, removing the evidence despite his earlier resistance.

• Paul plans to send his mother and dependants away before attempting the Queen's rescue.

  • Paul reports arranging his mother's and Anne's safety and proposes that Juliette travel with them.
  • Paul renews his intention to send his mother and Anne out of France for safety.
  • Paul renews his intention to get his mother and Anne out of France; Anne anticipates his priority and begins packing.
  • Paul and Percy arrange the evacuation, obtain passports, and send Madame Déroulède and Anne beyond Paris toward an escort to the coast. Their departure relieves Paul's anxiety, though arrival in England is not established.

• Paul plans to incapacitate the Queen's watchers with drugs and force, lead her out disguised as a National Guard soldier, and provide passports for her and her attendant; he insists on conveying written instructions to her.

  • The search threatens the written rescue arrangements and interrupts their execution; Juliette conceals the case believed to contain them.
  • The destruction of the compromising papers removes the written materials associated with the rescue plan; no replacement arrangements are established.

• Paul holds incriminating rescue instructions and passports in his desk; Percy sees the papers, and Juliette's arrival interrupts their discussion before Paul returns them to the desk.

  • Paul locks his desk and pockets the keys. Negotiation over access to the incriminating papers ends with Percy agreeing that Paul should keep them.
  • Juliette overhears and partly witnesses the discussion of the rescue undertaking and acts on that knowledge. The events do not establish that she takes possession of the papers.
  • Juliette identifies the locked letter-case as holding evidence for her denunciation, which has offered supporting proofs to the authorities.
  • Juliette's overhearing leads her to identify and conceal the letter-case; Paul infers what she has done, and the study search fails to recover the correspondence.
  • The compromising correspondence formerly kept in Paul's desk is destroyed as readable evidence.

• Paul responds to Juliette's presence with tenderness, revealing his growing emotional attachment.

  • Paul's attachment is established as love, which Percy recognizes and Paul confirms; Paul also begins to desire a more human, passionate form of love.
  • Percy explicitly identifies Paul's attachment as love and regards it as permanent; Anne ultimately accepts his assessment.
  • Paul seeks a private farewell, explicitly declares his love and initiates physical intimacy, retaining Juliette when she tries to withdraw.
  • Paul reads love in Juliette's gaze and responds to her intervention with gratitude, protective concern and admiration.
  • Paul's gratitude intensifies his attachment into passionate love, physical advances and his first declaration.
  • The betrayal devastates Paul and destroys his trust, yet he understands Juliette's silent appeal and tries to spare her public humiliation without showing hatred or contempt.
  • Paul declares his love ended, but terror at Juliette's arrest and his determination to rescue her reveal his continuing attachment.
  • Paul declares his continuing passionate love and explicitly forgives Juliette, understanding the oath behind her betrayal and accepting her faults.
  • Paul's attachment intensifies into passionate love and willingness to die for Juliette, culminating in his public undertaking of her defence.
  • Paul and Juliette recognize their reciprocal love, reconcile and commit to remaining together.
  • Their reunion brings shared exhilaration and a mutual desire for life together.

• Percy mistrusts Juliette, while Paul wants to convince him that his suspicion is unjust.

  • Anne supplies Percy with suspicions about Juliette's entry and continued stay. He recognises Anne's possible bias but proposes surveillance and believes Paul would reject advice against Juliette.

• Paul begins to desire a human, passionate love beyond idealized worship.

  • Paul acts on his desire for passionate love through declaration, kisses and intimate handholding; Juliette's inward recognition of love is not recorded as an explicit answer to him.
  • Paul takes Juliette's gaze as revealing deep love, giving his desire for reciprocal love an apparent answer.
  • Paul acts on his desire for physical intimacy, then restrains himself and seeks forgiveness after interpreting Juliette's reaction as rejection.
  • Paul finds the reciprocal human love he desired in Juliette's unmistakable love and trust.

• Anne seeks Percy's intervention to convince Paul that Juliette threatens him and to separate them; Percy considers persuasion futile and refuses to promise separation.

  • Anne discloses to Paul that she sought Percy's help because she fears he trusts dangerous people; no separation or change in Paul's trust is established.
  • Anne directly exposes Juliette to Paul, achieving recognition of the betrayal, but discovers that her success has devastated him.

• Percy proposes watching Juliette carefully, and Anne commits to watching over Paul; Percy offers to pledge Paul's safety.

  • Anne recognizes the danger and tries to warn Paul, but the guards obstruct her access; she restrains her alarm.

• Anne wishes to erase Paul's knowledge of her jealousy, believing that he now pities her.

• Juliette's pursuit of revenge threatens Madame Déroulède and Anne, whose innocence she recognizes.

  • Anne's care and the household's kindness intensify Juliette's distress over the danger her betrayal brings upon her innocent benefactors.
  • The danger to Paul's household becomes immediate, Anne fears for him, and the search extends beyond his study.
  • The danger to Paul overwhelms his mother, while Anne suffers on recognizing the pain caused by exposing Juliette.

• Juliette uses a written denunciation to bring revolutionary punishment upon Paul, composing and correcting it before secretly depositing it in the public denunciation box.

  • The authorities have received Juliette's denunciation and offer of proofs, and she identifies the evidence that could substantiate it; no arrest or trial is yet recorded.
  • The denunciation reaches the authorities and produces an official investigation and search, accomplishing its intended intervention; Paul's ultimate punishment remains unsettled.

• Juliette intends to leave Paul's hospitality, using a headache to excuse her absence from breakfast and having Pétronelle pack that afternoon.

  • Juliette orders packing and attempts an unseen departure, then tells Paul she will leave; his private conversation interrupts her exit, and she refuses his travel assistance.
  • The packed valise attracts Merlin's attention, and his prohibition prevents Juliette from leaving the house.
  • Juliette leaves the house as a prisoner, preventing her intended voluntary departure.

• Juliette intends to leave for England today with Pétronelle, seeking Percy for passports and travel advice while refusing Paul's arrangements for her.

  • Merlin forbids Juliette to leave pending further questioning, obstructing her planned departure for England.
  • Juliette's arrest prevents her planned journey to England with Pétronelle.
  • Juliette and Pétronelle reunite outside Paris and join the escape toward England under Percy's arrangements.

• Juliette recognizes that she loves Paul more than her family traditions or revenge oath, yet tries to sustain the oath through prayer and family memories; she experiences an answer claiming vengeance for God.

  • Juliette recognizes the horror of her oath and denunciation, repudiates revenge, and chooses to save Paul and clear him of suspicion.

• Merlin pursues Paul's downfall through an authorized search for evidence of conspiracy; the study and personal searches fail to uncover the incriminating correspondence, and he extends the search to other rooms.

  • While Merlin searches Paul's bedroom, Juliette destroys the incriminating correspondence he seeks. His investigation remains active, but this source of legible evidence is lost.
  • Merlin continues gathering information in the kitchen, but doubts the accusation, attempts to conciliate Paul and releases him from immediate supervision; the compromising papers have been destroyed.
  • The search extends to Anne's and Pétronelle's rooms, and questioning reaches the household; Paul learns that an anonymous denunciation prompted the investigation.
  • Despite finding no evidence against Paul, Merlin requires him to face the Committee, seeks incriminating evidence in his reaction, and has him escorted to the Hall of Justice.
  • Juliette supplies an innocent explanation for the destroyed papers and denunciation; Merlin acknowledges that Paul's importance prevents prosecution on mere suspicion.
  • Despite Merlin's report, the Committee releases Paul with an assurance that it presently has no grievance against him; Paul expects surveillance and a later attack.
  • Merlin returns without evidence sufficient to incriminate Paul. The burnt papers and Juliette's explanation leave his investigation vulnerable to public attack.

• Juliette seeks to save Paul from her denunciation and remove every suspicion against him.

  • Juliette removes and destroys the compromising writing that could condemn Paul, but has not yet cleared him of suspicion.
  • Juliette destroys the compromising papers and Paul recognizes her intervention as saving him, although Merlin's investigation has not explicitly ended.
  • The search yields no evidence, and Paul concludes that Juliette concealed the letter-case; her intervention has protected the papers, but Paul is still taken away.
  • Juliette takes responsibility for a supposedly baseless denunciation and explains away the papers, weakening Merlin's grounds against Paul without establishing Paul's release.
  • Juliette understands her intervention as having saved Paul and commits herself to sacrificing her life to secure his safety.
  • Paul gains temporary freedom, while Juliette commits to sacrificing herself to secure his safety; his lasting safety remains uncertain.
  • Paul openly admits the rescue correspondence, and the prosecution persuades the crowd that both defendants conspired together.

• Juliette conceals Paul's letter-case beneath her skirts and exploits Merlin's expectation of assistance to direct the search away from the concealed evidence.

  • Juliette exploits the search upstairs to carry the case to her room, renders all compromising writing illegible, and hides the surviving case in her valise.

• Juliette holds the concealed letter-case; Paul infers her intervention and protects it, while Merlin mistakenly believes she is a discarded mistress assisting his investigation out of spite.

  • Juliette secretly destroys the writing and conceals the surviving case among her packed dresses. Pétronelle learns that she is burning letters and may face questioning, but no event shows Merlin discovering her intervention.
  • The concealed papers are burned and Juliette tells Paul, ending the need to hide their possession from the search.

• Juliette's effort to undo her denunciation exposes her to Merlin's threatened consequences if it proves fruitless; he forbids her to leave pending questioning.

  • Juliette risks carrying and destroying the evidence while soldiers remain upstairs. The case and incompletely consumed fragments survive, and she leaves her room after hiding the case, with Merlin's threatened questioning still pending.
  • Merlin's threatened consequences become a concrete intention to sacrifice Juliette to protect himself.
  • Merlin discovers burnt paper fragments in Juliette's ash-pan, and she becomes convinced that she will be arrested and condemned.
  • Merlin subjects Juliette to physical coercion, places her in soldiers' custody and has her removed from the house.
  • Juliette is imprisoned in the Luxembourg. Merlin describes her as dangerous, makes the governor personally accountable for her custody, and restricts visitors to those specially permitted by the Public Prosecutor.
  • Juliette is taken into custody to answer before the Committee, with her alleged conduct toward Paul used to explain her arrest.

• Merlin plans to sacrifice Juliette to the Committee of Public Safety to exculpate himself as the accusation against Paul loses credibility.

  • The discovery of burnt fragments gives Merlin material for pursuing Juliette, who recognizes the discovery and anticipates condemnation.
  • As the case against Paul weakens, Merlin takes Juliette into custody; her delivery to the Committee and his exculpation remain unconfirmed.
  • Merlin reinforces his treatment of Juliette as a dangerous prisoner through instructions invoking the Committee and restricting access to her.
  • Merlin's discovery and insinuations accompany Juliette's transfer into custody while Paul is released.
  • Merlin has arrested Juliette instead of Paul and invokes her denunciation to defend his conduct as his own safety comes under threat.
  • The prosecution of Juliette proceeds through public allegations of immorality and a demand for whipping and indefinite detention, though no sentence has been passed.

• Paul mistakes Juliette's horror at her betrayal for repulsion from his passion, prompting shame and a request for forgiveness.

  • Paul recognizes Juliette's betrayal and understands her plea against public humiliation, replacing his earlier interpretation of her horror as repulsion from his passion.

• Anne uses a blank paper presented as the denunciation to frighten Juliette into revealing her guilt before Paul.

• Paul's discovery of Juliette's betrayal destroys his idealized trust; her concealment of the compromising papers remains unexplained within his conclusion that she deceived him throughout.

  • Paul loses his idealized reverence, interprets Merlin's insinuations as confirmation of betrayal, and bids Juliette farewell. He now recognizes her concealment of the letter-case as possible remorse, without recovering his trust.
  • Paul initially interprets the betrayal as ordinary revenge and repudiates his idealization, but learning of the oath restores his faith in Juliette's bravery and upright character.

• Juliette abandons hope of sharing Paul's love and becomes ready to undergo atonement.

  • Juliette sustains her resolve under degradation, explicitly pledges atonement with her life and accompanies her captors without resistance.
  • Juliette finds inward happiness in Paul's avowed love while accepting death for his safety and recognizing her pursuit of vengeance as criminal.
  • Juliette's readiness for atonement becomes a deliberate choice of self-sacrifice for Paul's safety.
  • Paul reports that Juliette intends to sacrifice her life to atone for betraying him.
  • After hearing the requested punishment, Juliette declines to answer the indictment and prepares to state that she has instructed no advocate.
  • Juliette believes Paul's love is dead but remains willing to die to save him and spare his family.
  • Forgiveness and mutual love overturn Juliette's expectation of permanent separation; hope replaces despair, and she commits herself to surviving through the rescue.

• The Paris crowd opposes Merlin's treatment of Paul and follows Paul to protect him as he is escorted to the Hall of Justice.

  • Paul's presence in court renews public sympathy: a child recognizes him through his generosity, and the crowd briefly responds with tenderness. No further protective action is recorded.
  • The crowd withdraws its protection and turns against Paul after his confession, believing his charity concealed treason.

• Juliette falsely claims that she denounced an innocent Paul to exchange one lover for another and burned another man's love letters, seeking to remove suspicion from Paul.

  • Her account presents the protective deception as having saved Paul, and she sustains its purpose by committing herself to bear the fatal consequences.
  • The burned papers and Juliette's acquiescence sustain her account of exchanging lovers and direct blame toward herself.
  • Merlin reports Juliette's account that the papers were love letters and that she denounced Paul to rid herself of him, carrying her protective explanation into the club's deliberations.
  • Juliette's protective account is challenged by Paul's confession and the evidence from her bedroom; the crowd concludes that they acted together.

• Anne repents her treatment of Juliette, offers tenderness and asks forgiveness; Juliette takes hope from her sympathy.

  • Anne attempts a farewell, relinquishes her hatred of Juliette as a rival, and develops tenderness alongside a rejection of personal revenge.
  • Anne discovers Juliette alive, recognizes Paul's forgiveness, and feels unmixed joy in their happiness together.

• Anne agrees to convey to Paul Juliette's explanation that her oath motivated the betrayal and that she is willing to atone with her life.

  • Anne conveys Juliette's explanation of the oath to Paul, enabling him to reinterpret her betrayal as a conflict of conscience.

• Juliette seeks to secure care for Pétronelle by asking Anne to look after her.

  • Pétronelle receives practical care from Paul: safe lodgings, money and necessaries. She becomes calm through the mistaken belief that she is awaiting Juliette's return; her departure from Paris is not established.
  • Paul's provision for Pétronelle and Percy's arrangements bring her safely out of Paris and reunite her with Juliette.

• Juliette faces public hostility while under guard: a mother attempts to strike her and directs her child to spit on her, while Merlin delights in her abuse.

  • Public hostility continues in court, where spectators jeer at Juliette and delight in her humiliation.
  • Juliette briefly gains public sympathy through Paul's defence, then faces renewed hatred and an attempted mob assault.

• Paul recovers faith in Juliette's character but believes she never loved him and abandons hope of reciprocation.

  • Paul recognizes that Juliette truly loves and trusts him, ending his belief that his love is unreturned.

• Paul intends to save Juliette despite little hope, refusing to owe his safety to her sacrifice.

  • Paul searches unsuccessfully through the night, then learns Juliette's prison and impending trial from Percy. He refuses to leave Paris, resolves to defend her and give his life for hers, and seeks Percy's protection for her if he is condemned.
  • Paul commits to sacrificing himself for Juliette, controls his anger to protect her case and publicly demands her full acquittal.
  • Paul incriminates himself while asserting Juliette's innocence, winning temporary sympathy for her and approval for refusing safety at her expense.
  • Paul recognizes his failure to save Juliette, and both receive death sentences.
  • Juliette is freed alongside Paul, and he joins the escape while undertaking to keep her beside him.

• Merlin and Tinville undermine one another through accusations of treason; Merlin's failure to incriminate Paul gives Tinville and the club an opportunity to threaten Merlin's own standing and life.

  • Attention shifts away from Merlin's failures, although Lenoir warns that his safety depends on prosecuting others. Merlin and Tinville apparently reconcile and support eliminating Lenoir after exploiting his scheme.
  • Paul's loss of public support relieves Merlin and delights Tinville, improving Merlin's position after his earlier investigative failure.

• Lenoir advocates manufacturing evidence against Paul and takes the lead in attacking Merlin for failing to do so, winning the club's approval.

  • Lenoir gains tacit leadership and unanimous commitment to Paul's death, developing his demand for manufactured evidence into an adopted scheme to make Paul incriminate himself by defending Juliette.
  • Lenoir is revealed as Percy; his attack on Paul and manipulation of the deputies served a joint rescue, whose release from custody is accomplished.

• Lenoir proposes charging Juliette with immorality to induce Paul to furnish evidence against himself through his defence of her; the club adopts the scheme and Merlin agrees to participate.

  • The adopted scheme reaches the courtroom: Juliette is charged with sexual immorality and threatened with degrading punishment, and Paul intervenes to defend her. He has not yet furnished evidence against himself.
  • The courtroom scheme produces Paul's self-incriminating defence and the loss of popular protection that Lenoir predicted.
  • The scheme culminates in Paul's prosecution and condemnation alongside Juliette, using an indictment prepared for this contingency.

• Tinville and the remaining extremists agree to use Lenoir's scheme tomorrow and then have him killed; Merlin supports eliminating him.

• Merlin has Juliette designated dangerous and held incommunicado in a remote wing of Luxembourg Palace, preventing Paul from finding or reaching her that night.

• Paul intends to demand publicly at dawn the right to stand beside Juliette and defend her at her trial, accepting the prospect of his own condemnation.

  • Paul is present in the courtroom when the president orders the accused brought in, placing him at the intended occasion for his intervention; no demand to defend Juliette is yet recorded.
  • Paul carries out his intended public intervention by undertaking Juliette's defence and demanding her acquittal; the outcome of that defence remains unsettled.

• Percy intends to remain in Paris until he can get Paul out; Paul refuses to leave and asks him to save Juliette after his anticipated condemnation, and Percy promises his best efforts.

  • Paul's anticipated condemnation occurs, and Juliette is also sentenced and escorted away, making Percy's promised rescue efforts urgent.
  • Percy rescues both prisoners from their escort and begins the next stage of getting them out of Paris.
  • Percy directs his companions through the crowd and toward escape, materially advancing his undertaking to save Paul and Juliette.
  • Percy successfully brings both Paul and Juliette to safety and carries them away from France.

• Paul resolves to assume Juliette's disgrace and guilt to secure her freedom, restraining his anger so that he can pursue her defence through legal procedure.

  • Paul claims the treasonable correspondence and defends Juliette's innocence, briefly gaining sympathy for her; the bedroom discoveries undermine his account and expose both to renewed hostility.
  • Juliette is condemned after openly declaring her allegiance to the Queen; Paul is then condemned without an opportunity to speak, defeating his attempt to secure her freedom through his defence.
  • Percy's intervention frees both prisoners and supersedes Paul's attempt to obtain Juliette's freedom by assuming her guilt.

• Witnessing Juliette's public humiliation turns Paul's devotion to suffering humanity into hatred of the Revolution and its people, with a momentary wish for their suffering and death.

• The crowd turns against Paul and Juliette as supposed joint conspirators and attempts to attack them; the National Guard prevents the assault.

  • The crowd's hatred has displaced Paul's former popularity. Most spectators leave the hall, and both prisoners enter the street under strong escort; no further assault is recorded.
  • The crowd's hatred and lethal threats persist during the attempted prison transfer, exhausting the protective escort; a new escort removes the prisoners from the riot scene, without settling the crowd's hostility.
  • The companions protect Juliette, the crowd forgets its original pursuit, and the escaping figures enter the cemetery while the crowd turns its attention away.

• Lenoir leads the expelled spectators into the streets to pursue revenge against Paul and Juliette, proposing to find a lantern for hanging them.

  • A lamp is replaced with a hanging noose, Lenoir incites violent revenge, and the crowd recognizes and threatens Paul; no hanging occurs.
  • Percy redirects the pursuit toward the barriers, where the crowd forgets its original purpose and concentrates on overcoming the guards.

• Paul hopes to console and soothe Juliette during what he expects to be their remaining hours together.

  • Paul remains beside Juliette and wraps his coat around her to protect her from the rain, giving practical expression to his wish to comfort her.
  • Reconciliation brings Juliette peace and almost perfect happiness even while both still expect death.

• Santerre seeks reinforcements to relieve the exhausted guards holding back the riot crowd.

• An unfamiliar soldier obtains Santerre's approval to remove Paul and Juliette covertly under a claimed order to transfer them to the Temple, leaving guards with an empty cart to divert the crowd.

  • The purported transfer removes the prisoners from the crowd and brings them to the point where Percy's men overpower their guards and free them.

• Percy orders the captured soldiers secured inside the hostelry and dosed with a potion to prevent their interference with the escape.

• Percy plans to get the party out of Paris tonight in ragged disguises, infiltrating and steering the crowd toward the Temple before withdrawing at his thrice-repeated sea-mew signal; Paul and Juliette must remain together.

  • The companions infiltrate the crowd, follow Percy's repeated signal eastward, and use the crowd's assault on the barrier to get outside Paris before entering Père Lachaise.
  • The party reaches the inn, changes disguises, and departs by chaise, completing the escape from Paris without further adventure.

• Juliette commits to using her presence of mind and strength to complete the rescue, recognizing the risks her friends have taken for her.

  • Juliette continues with the rescuers through the crowd, follows the escape route, and reaches the cemetery beyond the city gates.
  • Juliette participates in the remaining escape arrangements and reaches safety with the party.

• Paul and Juliette desire freedom and a life together, finding renewed hope in their reunion and the prospect of escape.

  • Paul and Juliette gain freedom together, sail toward England, and begin to experience their danger as something past.

• Paul feels overwhelming gratitude toward Percy for securing their escape.

Places

France, Paris, Rue Ecole de Médecine, Place de la Révolution, Temple, England, Ursuline Convent, Louvre, Suresnes, Conciergerie, Luxembourg Gardens, Austria, Prussia, Toulon Arsenal, Place St Michel, Musée Carnavalet, Sign of the Cruche Cassée, Hall of Justice, Normandy coast, Luxembourg prison, Rue des Arts, Barrière Ménilmontant, Le Havre