To be loyal to someone means to have a strong feeling of support or allegiance towards them. Many characters in Charles Dickens novel are loyal to one another. Some of the most important relationships that show loyalty in the text consisted of Lucie and any other character. One of these relationships was Miss Pross and Lucie. Since Lucie did not have a mother growing up, Miss Pross filled in the place of a mother for her. “...my ladybird. I’ll not leave a handful of that dark hair upon your head, if you lay a finger on me”(Dickens 377). In this section of the text, Miss Pross was fighting Madame Defarge to protect Lucie from being found. She states that she would hurt Madame Defarge if she were to start fighting back to get to Lucie. This shows
