Book the First: CHAPTER VI. The Shoemaker

Summary

• Doctor Manette is making a lady's shoe in the "present mode" or fashion.
• When asked his name, he responds "One Hundred and Five, North Tower."
• Lucie approaches and notices Doctor Manette's radiant golden hair.
• Doctor Manette mistakes Lucie for his wife and recalls keeping a strand of her hair while imprisoned.
• Lucie delivers an impassioned speech to Doctor Manette.
• Doctor Manette collapses under a storm of emotion.
• Lucie urges that arrangements be made for Doctor Manette's immediate departure for England.
• Mr. Lorry protests but Lucie insists that travel is safer than staying in Paris.
• Defarge agrees and the group is ushered into a coach.