The Scarlet Pimpernel In Chapters 27-31, we see Marguerite struggle internally. She has struggled throughout the book on what the right or wrong thing is to do. At this point, she is experiencing the worst the possible.

In Chapter 28, irony can be found in the fact that for all of Marguerite's fears of having to choose between Percy and Armand, she ultimately doesn't have to make that choice. Once she sees the Daydreamer boat anchored in the bay, she realizes she must save both at once, and goes hurtling towards the hut in her first decisive action in many, many chapters. Finally, our heroine has emerged -- only to be captured by Chauvelin, hence revealing Marguerite as the weakest of our principal characters. Her role, once defined by complicated choices and hidden depths, has devolved to become another mere foil for The Pimpernel's heroics.