"it is, that if miss manette should bring to you at any time, on her own part, such a confidence as i have ventured to lay before you, you will bear testimony to what i have said, and to your belief in it. i hope you may be able to think so well of me, as to urge no influence against me. i say nothing more of my stake in this; this is what i ask. the condition on which i ask it, and which you have an undoubted right to require, i will observe immediately."