And the old answer:
“I can’t say.”
Doctor Manette is a character in Charles Dickens’s novel “A Tale of Two Cities,” which is set in the late 18th century, right before and during the French Revolution. He was a physician that was called to care for a man and a woman who were injured. He later discovers that these people had been hurt by the Marquis St. Evrèmonde, who had called for his assistance. They imprison Doctor Manette to make sure he wouldn’t speak up about the ill-treatment that the man and the women had suffered at their hands, and that is where he stays until the beginning of the book, when Jarvis Lorry is sent to retrieve him, and recall him to life. The first time we hear the phrase