That man is put on trial and Lucie is asked to testify. Lucie, first, never thought her father would be alive and able to come back to London with her, and she never expected she would have to testify in a trial. At the trial while testifying against her future husband, Lucie says “The prisoner was as open in his confidence with me – which arose out of my helpless situation – as he was kind, and good, and useful to my father. I hope I may not repay him by doing him harm to-day” (Dickens 74). Her use of the word helpless shows that she did not know what to do, because she was not expecting to ever have to be rescuing her father. This shows that she was, in fact, thrown into this unexpected situation. The fact that both of these women were thrown into situations that they never thought they would find themselves in made them vulnerable to feeling a wide variety of emotions, and more accepting to changes in their lives that may follow these unexpected
That man is put on trial and Lucie is asked to testify. Lucie, first, never thought her father would be alive and able to come back to London with her, and she never expected she would have to testify in a trial. At the trial while testifying against her future husband, Lucie says “The prisoner was as open in his confidence with me – which arose out of my helpless situation – as he was kind, and good, and useful to my father. I hope I may not repay him by doing him harm to-day” (Dickens 74). Her use of the word helpless shows that she did not know what to do, because she was not expecting to ever have to be rescuing her father. This shows that she was, in fact, thrown into this unexpected situation. The fact that both of these women were thrown into situations that they never thought they would find themselves in made them vulnerable to feeling a wide variety of emotions, and more accepting to changes in their lives that may follow these unexpected