and referring to an imaginary letter of two or three hurried lines in
his own hand, represented to have been addressed to her by the
same post.
These measures, advisable to be taken in any case, Mr. Lorry
took in the hope of his coming to himself. If that should happen
soon, he kept another course in reserve; which was, to have a
certain opinion that he thought the best, on the Doctor’s case.
In the hope of his recovery, and of resort to this third course
being thereby rendered practicable, Mr. Lorry resolved to watch
him attentively, with as little appearance as possible of doing so.
He therefore made arrangements to absent himself from Tellson’s
for the first time in his life, and took his post by the window in the
same room.
He was not long in discovering that it was worse than useless to
speak to him, since, on being pressed, he became worried. He
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abandoned that attempt on the first day, and resolved merely to
keep himself always before him, as a silent protest against the
delusion into which he had fallen, or was falling. He remained,
therefore, in his seat near the window, reading and writing, and
expressing in as many pleasant and natural ways as he could think
of, that it was a free place.
Doctor Manette took what was given him to eat and drink, and
worked on, that first day, until it was too dark to seeworked on,
half an hour after Mr. Lorry could not have seen, for his life, to
read or write. When he put his tools aside as useless, until
morning, Mr. Lorry rose and said to him:
“Will you go out?”
He looked down at the floor on eit