This section of the reading starts off with a spy. This spy is reporting of Lucie planning to marry Darnay. When Madame Defarge hears this she adds Darnay's name to her registry. This registry has something to do with what she is knitting and how she is knitting names for a reason, whether that reason is foreshadowing his death or what.
The next chapter talks about the "eve" of Lucie's wedding. Mr. Manette seems worried, it is either since is torn between letting his daughter once again be taken from him or if it is from the fact that he is not to sure about Darnay. It also could be a sense of both. Lucie is also worried about her father and this is shown when she goes to his bedroom that night. She looks in his room to see how he is doing and finds him sleeping. I'm sure this takes a lot of pressure off her shoulders and makes it easier for her to go and get married. Her father is such a big part of her life seeing as how she just got to know him and doesn't want to lose him again. The last time she checked on him after the news of her engagement she found him once again working away making shoes. This disturbed her because this is what he spent so much time doing in jail. This shows that he was not so sure about Darnay, but now finding him asleep makes her feel better about everything.
The next chapter talks about Darnay telling Dr. Manette his secret. He confronts to him that his is related to the Marquis and that is his family, the same family that put Dr. Manette in prison. This does not set well with Dr. Manette and the fact that this man is about to marry his daughter and he is about to be a part of that family. This also falls into the next couple of chapters and how Dr. Manette has a relapse. Mr. Lorry and Ms. Pross try to figure out what to do about this and the doctor tells them to stay with him and he makes sure they are people he can trust in order to help Dr. Manette. This is a good thing for the doctor to do because things could possibly get worse if Mr. Lorry was not someone who could be trusted.
This reading is getting much more intense and starting to makes its way in deeper into the love triangle and the secrets everyone seems to carry.
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Doesn't Madame Defarge knit the name of the spy in her registry instead of Darnays?? I do agree that for Lucie to see her father asleep the night before her wedding is what allowed her to get married. If he would have been pacing back and forth, I think the following day would have been much different.
I disagree with you about whose name is knitted on the registry, I do believe that it is the spy who is knitted. I do agree with you the with Manette's sleeping before the wedding, he is approving of her getting married.
I think that the names that Madame Defarge knits is those who they are going to kill.
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