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A Daring Disguise

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During the height of the French Revolution the De Charnay family, the Comte, his English wife, son Edouard and daughter Annette, are desperate to escape Paris. They elude capture and are soon sent help from their English cousin, Sir Thomas Welford. En route to the coast the daughter becomes sick and so she and the comte are forced to remain.
The mother and son are soon safe with the Welfords, who have several children, three being grown - Marianne, Lucy and Luke. Marianne is engaged to their M.P. neighbour Harvey Burrage-Smith. She is discontented with him, finding him stuffy and unromantic. When she asks his help in trying to rescue the still stranded cousins he refuses and she breaks the engagement.
Soon she and her brother are en route to France to do just this and are aided by an odd French couple engaged in this rescue work.
Much action follows,the erstwhile fiancee returns to the picture and is definitely not what he seems.
Here is a familiar story line, always with great potential. Alas, it falls down badly. Marianne and Harvey are drawn in well, but there is no real connection between them. There is a hint at buried feelings, but it is perfunctory at best.
The whole tale is choppy and jumps about for action, but does not deliver it, by getting bogged down in detail. Too many scenes at check points. One adventure would have been better than this episodic attempt.
A good story was missed here.