Preview: Part II, Chapter 19
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Start: Worn out by anxious watching, Mr. Lorry fell asleep at his post.
Stop after: like accomplices in a horrible crime.
After nine days of anxious watching, Mr. Lorry considers how to approach Doctor Manette cautiously and seek guidance without forcing a direct confession. He frames his concern as the case of an unnamed friend.
The Doctor’s answers carry both medical opinion and guarded self-knowledge. The discussion asks what recovery requires when an object has become a refuge, a habit, and a danger at once.