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1Nothing would induce him to speak more. He looked up, for an instant at a time, when he was requested to do so; but, no
2persuasion would extract a word from him. He worked, and worked, and worked, in silence, and words fell on him as they
3would have fallen on an echoless wall, or on the air. The only ray of hope that Mr. Lorry could discover, was, that he
4sometimes furtively looked up without being asked. In that, there seemed a faint expression of curiosity or
5perplexity--as though he were trying to reconcile some doubts in his mind. Two things at once impressed themselves on
6Mr. Lorry, as important above all others; the first, that this must be kept secret from Lucie; the second, that it must
7be kept secret from all who knew him. In conjunction with Miss Pross, he took immediate steps towards the latter
8precaution, by giving out that the Doctor was not well, and required a few days of complete rest. In aid of the kind
9deception to be practised on his daughter, Miss Pross was to write, describing his having been called away
10professionally, and referring to an imaginary letter of two or three hurried lines in his own hand, represented to have
11been addressed to her by the same post. These measures, advisable to be taken in any case, Mr. Lorry took in the hope of
12his coming to himself. If that should happen soon, he kept another course in reserve; which was, to have a certain
13opinion that he thought the best, on the Doctor's case. In the hope of his recovery, and of resort to this third course
14being thereby rendered practicable, Mr. Lorry resolved to watch him attentively, with as little appearance as possible
15of doing so. He therefore made arrangements to absent himself from Tellson's for the first time in his life, and took
16his post by the window in the same room. He was not long in discovering that it was worse than useless to speak to him,
17since, on being pressed, he became worried. He abandoned that attempt on the first day, and resolved merely to keep
18himself always before him, as a silent protest against the delusion into which he had fallen, or was falling. He
19remained, therefore, in his seat near the window, reading and writing, and expressing in as many pleasant and natural
20ways as he could think of, that it was a free place. Doctor Manette took what was given him to eat and drink, and worked
21on, that first day, until it was too dark to see--worked on, half an hour after Mr. Lorry could not have seen, for his
22life, to read or write. When he put his tools aside as useless, until morning, Mr. Lorry rose and said to him: "Will you
23go out?" He looked down at the floor on either side of him in the old manner, looked up in the old manner, and repeated
24in the old low voice: "Out?" "Yes; for a walk with me. Why not?" He made no effort to say why not, and said not a word
25more. But, Mr. Lorry thought he saw, as he leaned forward on his bench in the dusk, with his elbows on his knees and his
26head in his hands, that he was in some misty way asking himself, "Why not?" The sagacity of the man of business
27perceived an advantage here, and determined to hold it. Miss Pross and he divided the night into two watches, and
28observed him at intervals from the adjoining room. He paced up and down for a long time before he lay down; but, when he
29did finally lay himself down, he fell asleep. In the morning, he was up betimes, and went straight to his bench and to
30work. On this second day, Mr. Lorry saluted him cheerfully by his name, and spoke to him on topics that had been of late
31familiar to them. He returned no reply, but it was evident that he heard what was said, and that he thought about it,
32however confusedly. This encouraged Mr. Lorry to have Miss Pross in with her work, several times during the day; at
33those times, they quietly spoke of Lucie, and of her father then present, precisely in the usual manner, and as if there
34were nothing amiss. This was done without any demonstrative accompaniment, not long enough, or often enough to harass
35him; and it lightened Mr. Lorry's friendly heart to believe that he looked up oftener, and that he appeared to be
36stirred by some perception of inconsistencies surrounding him. When it fell dark again, Mr. Lorry asked him as before:
37"Dear Doctor, will you go out?" As before, he repeated, "Out?" "Yes; for a walk with me. Why not?" This time, Mr. Lorry
38feigned to go out when he could extract no answer from him, and, after remaining absent for an hour, returned. In the
39meanwhile, the Doctor had removed to the seat in the window, and had sat there looking down at the plane-tree; but, on
40Mr. Lorry's return, he slipped away to his bench. The time went very slowly on, and Mr. Lorry's hope darkened, and his
41heart grew heavier again, and grew yet heavier and heavier every day. The third day came and went, the fourth, the
42fifth. Five days, six days, seven days, eight days, nine days. With a hope ever darkening, and with a heart always
43growing heavier and heavier, Mr. Lorry passed through this anxious time. The secret was well kept, and Lucie was
44unconscious and happy; but he could not fail to observe that the shoemaker, whose hand had been a little out at first,
45was growing dreadfully skilful, and that he had never been so intent on his work, and that his hands had never been so
46nimble and expert, as in the dusk of the ninth evening.
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