On her wedding day, Mr. Lorry consoles Lucie, who is worried about leaving her fragile father, by assuring her that Dr. Manette will be closely looked after by him and Miss Pross.
In Book the Second, Chapter XVIII, "Nine Days," it is Lucie Manette and Charles Darnay's wedding day. While this is a joyous occasion, as she prepares to leave on her honeymoon, Lucie is anxious about her delicate father, who has endured eighteen years...
On her wedding day, Mr. Lorry consoles Lucie, who is worried about leaving her fragile father, by assuring her that Dr. Manette will be closely looked after by him and Miss Pross.
In Book the Second, Chapter XVIII, "Nine Days," it is Lucie Manette and Charles Darnay's wedding day. While this is a joyous occasion, as she prepares to leave on her honeymoon, Lucie is anxious about her delicate father, who has endured eighteen years in the Bastille. But, Mr. Lorry comforts her with these words,
"You leave your good father, my dear, in hands as earnest and as loving as your own; he shall be taken every conceivable care of....And, when, ...he comes to join you and your beloved husband...you shall say that we have sent him to you in the best health and in the happiest frame."
Ironically, however, Mr. Lorry has no idea of the trauma and relapse which Dr. Manette will soon suffer when Charles Darnay talks with him. For, in accordance with his promise made to Dr. Manette, Darnay has agreed to reveal his real name on his wedding day, only after having been successful in wooing Lucie. On this day Dr. Manette will learn what he has feared to hear earlier simply because he must.
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