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Lucie was so busy with her father, that she could not continue the
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conversation for long, and although she did not forget the young
gentleman’s kindness, she did not often think of him in the months
after she and her father arrived back in England. Her days were too
full, caring for the old doctor, and sitting with him for hours as, very
slowly, he began to recover.

With her love and gentleness, he at last remembered who he
was once more. The shoemaking tools that had never left his side
for so many years were untouched in his room. He put his life as a

prisoner in cell one hundred and five, North Tower, behind him and
gradually returned to health and started to enjoy living peacefully in
London with his dear daughter.

So when, five years later, Mr Lorry came to see Lucie with some
alarming news about the gentleman they had met on the boat, she
was taken completely by surprise.

The gentleman, whose name was Charles Darnay, had been
brought to trial as a French spy, Mr Lorry told her. The trial would
take place in London very soon. Mr Lorry, Lucie and her father were
all called to be witnesses at the trial because they had seen Charles
Darnay travel from France to England.

Lucie was very upset to have to take part in the trial of a

gentleman who had been so kind to her father at a difficult time, and
when she and her father took their seats in the court, she held his
arm tightly, trembling with fear.
When the prisoner caught sight of them, the expression on his
face changed so much that everyone in the court turned to look at
the lady with the golden hair and her old father.

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