Preview: Part III, Chapter 8

Reading boundary Start: Happily unconscious of the new calamity at home, Miss Pross threaded her way along the narrow streets Stop after: and let us have one final word alone.”

Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher shop in Paris without knowing what has happened at the lodging. A chance encounter in a wine-shop reconnects names and relationships from the English past to the revolutionary present.

Sydney Carton also enters the chapter with an unusual degree of purpose. Observation, names, and remembered evidence become “cards” in a strategic negotiation.