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"But I don't know how to originate, in such a case. If your

sagacity, knowledge, and experience, could put me on the right

track, I might be able to do so much; unenlightened and

undirected, I can do so little. Pray discuss it with me; pray

enable me to see it a little more clearly, and teach me how to be

a little more useful."

Doctor Manette sat meditating after these earnest words were

spoken, and Mr. Lorry did not press him.

"I think it probable," said the Doctor, breaking silence with an

effort, "that the relapse you have described, my dear friend, was

not quite unforeseen by its subject."

"Was it dreaded by him?" Mr. Lorry ventured to ask.

"Very much." He said it with an involuntary shudder.

"You have no idea how such an apprehension weighs on the

sufferer's mind, and how difficult--how almost impossible--it is,

for him to force himself to utter a word upon the topic that

oppresses him."