John Barsad, also recorded for death,reveals that Lucie is engaged to Damay. Before their marriage, Darnay divulges his family name, Evremonde, to Dr. Manette, who languishes for nine days in a state of stupefaction before reverting to cobbling after the newlyweds leave on a two-week honeymoon to Warwickshire. Lorry tends the doctor, who joins Lucie and Damay for a two-week journey through Wales. After his departure, Miss Pross and Lorry dispose of the cobbling bench and tools. In 1789, after the Parisian mob storms the Bastille, Defarge finds something important in Dr. Manette's former cell.
Atrocities continue unchecked.
Oppressors are captured, beheaded, and dismembered. The Jacquerie burn Evremonde's chateau. Mr. Lorry travels to France on bank business, followed soon after by Darnay, who responds to a plea for help from a trusted family servant, Gabelle. At the beginning of Book Three, in the midst of the political upheaval of 1792, Darnay is imprisoned at La Force Prison for being an aristocrat. Lucie, accompanied by her father, young Lucie, and the child's nurse, Miss Pross, hurry to France to rescue Darnay.