Status Updates From The Scarlet Pimpernel

This book is going to wreck my joy. I totally know it.

AAAAHHHHHHHHH
"He was but a man madly, blindly, passionately in love and as soon as her light footstep had died away within the house, he knelt down upon the terrace steps, and in the very madness of his love he kissed one by one the places where her small foot had trodden, and the stone balustrade, where her tiny hand had rested last.”

NOT THE TERRORS OF UNREQUITED LOVE!

So many characters are being introduced

I am fascinated by Neapolitan but never had an interest in the revolution that brought about his rise to power. It has always seemed to me that that it was something that did deserve to be called the reign of terror. This book is during that period of time.