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"I don't wonder at it; it's not so long since you were pretty far

advanced on your way to another. You speak faintly."

"I begin to think I am faint."

"Then why the devil don't you dine? I dined, myself, while those

numskulls were deliberating which world you should belong

to--this, or some other. Let me show you the nearest tavern to

dine well at."

Drawing his arm through his own, he took him down Ludgate-hill to

Fleet-street, and so, up a covered way, into a tavern. Here, they

were shown into a little room, where Charles Darnay was soon

recruiting his strength with a good plain dinner and good wine:

while Carton sat opposite to him at the same table, with his

separate bottle of port before him, and his fully half-insolent

manner upon him.

"Do you feel, yet, that you belong to this terrestrial scheme

again, Mr. Darnay?"

"I am frightfully confused regarding time and place; but I am so

far mended as to feel that."

"It must be an immense satisfaction!"