It is the year 1775, and Jarvis Lorry is traveling by carriage when he receives a letter from Jerry Cruncher instructing him to wait for a Lucie Manette in Dover. He meets up with the girl and tells her that she is not an orphan and that her father is alive. Jarvis Lorry leaves with Lucie to Paris to meet her father, Dr. Manette, who has recently been released from the Bastille and has been looked after by the Defarges. He had grown slightly insane in his eighteen years in the Bastille, but he developed a hobby of making women's shoes to keep him sane. He regains some of his sanity when he sees Lucie again. Now that Dr. Manette is out of prison, He and Lucie head back to London with Jarvis Lorry. Five years later, a man Charles Darnay is accused and tried in London on a charge of treason for providing English secrets to the French. Sydney Carton, an attorney who works with Mr. Stryver and looks quite similar to Darnay, is able to help clear Darnay's charges. Charles Darnay, Sydney Carton, and Mr. Stryver all fall in love with Lucie Manette. Although they all make an attempt to woo her, she favors Charles Darnay and marries him. Carton comes to her house alone and declares that while he expects no return of his love, he would do anything for her or for anyone whom she loves. Darnay has hinted to Dr. Manette of his concealed identity, and he reveals to his father-in-law on the morning of his wedding that he is a French nobleman who has renounced his title. In France, Darnay's uncle, the Monseigneur, has been murdered in his bed for crimes against the French people. This means that Darnay is next in line to inherit the Monseigneur title, but he tells no one but Dr. Manette. At the urgent request of Monsieur Gabelle, who has been capriciously imprisoned, Darnay returns to Paris. Charles Darnay is arrested as a nobleman and an emigrant and thrown into jail. An English spy named John Barsad drops into the Defarges' wine-shop to gather