Defarge
greets the white-haired shoemaker; he responds vaguely. The very voice of Dr.
Manette seems to have shriveled inside of him. The lesson of this chapter, in
case you haven’t guessed, is that prison is a very, very unhappy place. Don’t
go there.
Defarge
asks the doctor if he can bear a little more light in the room. The doctor
replies that he must bear it if Defarge chooses to open a window. Apparently
they’re not so into free will and choice and all that good stuff in prison. I repeat:
prison is bad. It’s so bad, in fact, that Dr. Manette seems to think that he’s
never left it. In fact, Dr. Manette thinks his name is, "One Hundred and
Five, North Tower."
Lucie
moves slowly forward. She stops in front of his workbench. Startled, he asks
who she is. Slowly, he reaches up and touches her golden hair. He recognizes
the hair…it’s her hair. Well, it’s her mother’s hair. Lucie manages to convince her dad that France
is too wicked a country for them to stay in. They’ll return to England, where
she can honor the man who is her father properly.
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