Chapter 3: The Old Bailey Five years passed.

Doctor Manette and his daughter Lucie settled in a small house in London with Lucie's old nurse, Miss Pross. The doctor returned to health and began to see patients once more.

Sometimes, however,memories of his suffering came back to him and for a couple of days or more he would take up his shoe-making again. It was impossible to talk to him and he lost all idea of where he was.

He imagined himself to be back in prison and he withdrew completely into silence and suffering. Mr Lorry visited them frequently when he had time off from his duties at Tellson's Bank, where Jerry Cruncher was still working as a messenger.

One day the clerk told Jerry to go straight away to the Old Bailey to deliver a message to Mr Lorry. The Old Bailey, sir?' repeated Jerry.

What's going on there? And what's Mr Lorry got to do with the Old Bailey, I wonder?' Mr Lorry is giving evidence in a trial, that's all,' the clerk told him.

Jerry hurried to the Old Bailey as quickly as he could and entered the grim old building. He pushed through the crowd of lawyers and spectators who had come to watch the trial that was taking place'.

What's the trial about?' he asked one of the officials. I Suppose it's a forgery case?'

It's not forgery,' the official told him. It's more serious than that - it's treason!'

That's quartering, 'Jerry said quietly. Barbarous.