#Singing Percy's silly rhyme just to piss him off

[burnsopale]

I'm reading Sally Dugan's "Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel: A publishing history", and chapter 2 is devoted to the stage play ...

"Thus when Chauvelin stands aloof from the dancing at Lord Grenville’s Ball, despite the fact that as a one-time Marquis he would know the steps, this confirms his sinister status. That he does not join in with aristocratic ritual marks him out as ‘other’, just as much as his black costume. When Marguerite dances round him, singing ‘They seek him here, they seek him there’, it is a parody of ballroom behaviour; the implication is that it is his inability to penetrate the English cultural code that has made it so hard to track down the ‘elusive Pimpernel’ (SP Play, II, p. 48)."

... when Marguerite does WHAT?

We were robbed!