Noon
His own possessions , safety , life , he would have hazarded for Lucie and her child , without a moment 's demur ; but the great trust he held was not his own , and as to that business charge he was a strict man of business . At first , his mind reverted to Defarge , and he thought of finding out the wine-shop again and taking counsel with its master in reference to the safest dwelling-place in the distracted state of the city . But , the same consideration that suggested him , repudiated him ; he lived in the most violent Quarter , and doubtless was influential there , and deep in its dangerous workings . Noon coming , and the Doctor not returning , and every minute 's delay tending to compromise Tellson 's , Mr. Lorry advised with Lucie . She said that her father had spoken of hiring a lodging for a short term , in that Quarter , near the Banking-house . As there was no business objection to this , and as he foresaw that even if it were all well with Charles , and he were to be released , he could not hope to leave the city , Mr. Lorry went out in quest of such a lodging , and found a suitable one , high up in a removed by-street where the closed blinds in all the other windows of a high melancholy square of buildings marked deserted homes . To this lodging he at once removed Lucie and her child , and Miss Pross : giving them what comfort he could , and much more than he had himself .