Wherein a plan emerges from a crucible of incompetence and chaos, sending our heroes hurtling toward a final confrontation Twitter: @romunderpod Instagram: @romanticunderpinnings

Wherein our hero gets rescued, our heroine proves her capacity for self-sacrifice, and the side characters are approximately as useless as ever Twitter: @romunderpod Instagram: @romanticunderpinnings

Wherein our heroine sneaks around a palace, furtively scrambling toward a heartening reunion Twitter: @romunderpod Instagram: @romanticunderpinnings

Season 1, Episode 27 Wherein our hero makes a slight strategic blunder in a bathhouse, leading to perhaps his most compromised position yet Twitter: @romunderpod Instagram: romanticunderpinnings

Season 1, Episode 26 Wherein our hero fails to make an appearance, our heroine relies on her wits, and the reader will cling to faith in the power of “amour” Twitter: @romunderpod Instagram: @romanticunderpinnings

Wherein our hero goes to a bathhouse in Paris, and the juicy narrative possibilities opened up by this move make up for its arguable anachronism Twitter: @romunderpod Instagram: @romanticunderpinnings

Wherein our hero’s naivete is as monumental and overwhelming as the city of Paris, where our characters have coincidentally just arrived Twitter: @romunderpod Instagram: @romanticunderpinnings

Wherein our merry band gets a new member, and we do some more fantasy casting for the myriad multimedia adaptations in this show’s future Twitter: @romunderpod Instagram: @romanticunderpinnings

Wherein our hero and heroine choose a slightly dubious time to go for a walk in the woods, but it’s all worth it when they sit down Twitter: @romunderpod Instagram: @romanticunderpinnings

(Our apologies if this episode appears in your feed out of order; please listen to this after Chapter 20, and before Chapters 21+. Our hosts are incredible prose stylists, but less handy with an RSS feed.) Wherein our hero and heroine sneak across the countryside on mules before getting accosted by a mysterious interloper p.s. the character Andrew was trying to reference at the 30:50 mark was Lady Bracknell Twitter: @romunderpod Instagram: @romanticunderpinnings