Hello everyone,
I recently read Dickens ATOTC, and a question still bugs me:
Can anyone tell me what Sidney Carton buys at the apothecary in Paris, near the end of A Tale of Two Cities? At first I thought it was some sort of explosives to get Darnay out of prison if all else fails… then I thought maybe a poison to kill himself should he have to switch places with him. In the end, whatever it was never got used (or I didn’t understand it) and I’m still curious :-)
Maybe I missed something obvious because English is not my first language... any hints appreciated.