Lucie testifies that she and her father saw Darnay on a ship bound for England the night she brought her father back home to London, and that he was conversing with other men and poring over documents. Throughout the process, he and Lucie become extremely close.Īfter a period of five years, Lucie and her father are called to testify in the trial of Charles Darnay, a French citizen and London resident who has been accused of treason against England. After time, the doctor begins to recover and resumes his practice, and though he occasionally reverts back to his trance-like state, he slowly but surely returns to himself. Though her father is teetering on the brink of insanity, she solemnly vows that she will be true to him and devote her life to helping him recover himself. Manette's who has housed the doctor since his release. They find her father at the home of Ernest Defarge, a former domestic of Dr. Jarvis Lorry, a longtime Tellson's employee who had managed her father's affairs before his imprisonment. She travels to the French suburb of Saint Antoine with Mr. Lucie Manette, a young woman who has been raised as an orphan and a ward of Tellson's bank, learns that her father is alive and has recently been released from prison after eighteen years of unjust incarceration. The forces that are leading to revolution in France are colliding with a circle of people in England, causing their destinies to be irrevocably intertwined. It is the year 1775, and England and France are undergoing a period of social upheaval and turmoil.

A tale of two cities by charles dickens