Book the Second: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps

Summary

• Time passes and the Darnays live a peaceful life
• Lucie has a daughter, little Lucie, and a son who dies young
• Lucie continues to sit in a corner of the parlor and listen to the echoing footsteps on the street below
• By 1789, the echoes sound like a storm in France and a rising sea
• Lorry visits the Darnays and reports that many French citizens are sending their money and property to England
• The scene shifts to the storming of the Bastille in Paris, where Defarge and Madame Defarge are leaders of the mob
• Defarge searches a cell in the Bastille and then rejoins the mob as it murders and mutilates the governor who had defended the fortress
• Madame Defarge cuts off the governor's head.