I have lost no time, and since then, I have seen the spy.
He confirms me.
He knows that a wood-sawyer, living by the prison wall, is under the control of the Defarges, and has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen Her"-he never mentioned Lucie's name-"making signs and signals to prisoners.
It is easy to foresee that the pretence will be the common one, a prison plot, and that it will involve her life-and perhaps her child's-and perhaps her father's-for both have been seen with her at that place.
Don't look so horrified.
You will save them all."
"Heaven grant I may, Carton! But how?"
"I am going to tell you how.
It will depend on you, and it could depend on no better man.
This new denunciation will certainly not take place until after to-morrow; probably not until two or three days afterwards; more probably a week afterwards.