Two things at once impressed themselves on Mr. Lorry; the first, that this must be kept secret from Lucie;the second, that it must be kept secret from all who knew him. Inconjunction with Miss Pross, he took immediate steps towards thelatter precaution, by giving out that the Doctor was not well, andrequired a few days of complete rest. In aid of the kind deceptionto be practised on his daughter, Miss Pross was to write, describinghis having been called away professionally, and referring to animaginary letter of two or three hurried lines in his own hand,represented to have been addressed to her by the same post Massage Chair.

These measures, advisable to be taken in any case, Mr. Lorry took inthe hope of his coming to himself. If that should happen soon, he keptanother course in reserve; which was, to have a certain opinion thathe thought the best, on the Doctor's case.

In the hope of his recovery, and of resort to this third coursebeing thereby rendered practicable, Mr. Lorry resolved to watch himattentively, with as little appearance as possible of doing so. Hetherefore made arrangements to absent himself from Tellson's for thefirst time in his life, and took his post by the window in the sameroom.

He was not long in discovering that it was worse than useless tospeak to him, since, on being pressed, he became worried. He abandonedthat attempt on the first day, and resolved merely to keep himselfalways before him, as a silent protest against the delusion into whichhe had fallen, or was falling. He remained, therefore, in his seatnear the window, reading and writing, and expressing in as manypleasant and natural ways as he could think of, that it was a freeplace Hong Thai Travel.

Doctor Manette took what was given him to eat and drink, andworked on, that first day, until it was too dark to see- worked on,half an hour after Mr. Lorry could not have seen, for his life, toread or write. When he put his tools aside as useless, untilmorning, Mr. Lorry rose and said to him:

He made no effort to say why not, and said not a word more. But, Mr.Lorry thought he saw, as he leaned forward on his bench in the dusk,with his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands, that he was insome misty way asking himself, "Why not?" The sagacity of the man ofbusiness perceived an advantage here, and determined to hold it.

Miss Pross and he divided the night into two watches, and observedhim at intervals from the adjoining room. He paced up and down for along time before he lay down; but, when he did finally lay himselfdown, he fell asleep. In the morning, he was up betimes, and wentstraight to his bench and to work.

On this second day, Mr. Lorry saluted him cheerfully by his name,and spoke to him on topics that had been of late familiar to them.He returned no reply, but it was evident that he heard what wassaid, and that he thought about it, however confusedly. Thisencouraged Mr. Lorry to have Miss Pross in with her work, severaltimes during the day; at those times, they quietly spoke of Lucie, andof her father then present, precisely in the usual manner, and as ifthere were nothing amiss. This was done without any demonstrativeaccompaniment, not long enough, or often enough to harass him; andit lightened Mr. Lorry's friendly heart to believe that he looked upoftener, and that he appeared to be stirred by some perception ofinconsistencies surrounding him DataHOUSE.