Now I have it for a fact from my lady's own maid Lucy, that the young lady as is stopping at Lady Blakeney's house has actually spoken to the man.

She came over from France, come a fortnight to-morrow; she and the gentleman they call Mossoo Deroulede.

They both saw the Scarlet Pimpernel and spoke to him.
He brought them over from France.

Then why won't they say ?" "Say what ?" commented Johnny Cullen, the apprentice.
"Who this mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel is." "Perhaps he isn't," said old Clutterbuck, who was clerk of the vestry at the church of St.John's the Evangelist.
"Yes!" he added sententiously, for he was fond of his own sayings and usually liked to repeat them before he had quite done with them, "that's it, you may be sure.

Perhaps he isn't." "What do you mean, Master Clutterbuck ?" asked Ursula Quekett, for she knew the old man liked to explain his wise saws, and as she wanted to marry his son, she indulged him whenever she could.