A Tale of Two Cities, Chapter 3 summary

What happens

1. The narrator reflects that every person holds secrets that others cannot fully discover, even after death.
2. Jerry rides toward Tellson’s Bank and wonders how the message fits with his own work.
3. The drowsy bank passenger imagines the coach becoming his bank and its secure underground rooms.
4. His thoughts repeatedly turn to rescuing a wasted man who says his burial lasts almost eighteen years.
5. The imagined man gives conflicting answers about seeing an unnamed woman and crumbles into dust after rescue.
6. At sunrise, the passenger wakes and exclaims at the thought of eighteen years buried alive.

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