Then one of the lawyers, a man called Sydney Carton, wrote some words on a piece of paper, and gave it to Mr Stryver, the lawyer who was speaking for Mr Darnay.
I mean, I'd seen " Matlock" and " L. A. Law, " so I figured lawyers were super good-looking, fierce advocates for their clients, a little cool, maybe, on the personality scale, and wore a ton of seersucker.