*extra credit* Luci's Reaction

In book 13 chapter 11, Doctor Manettes letter had just been read and Darneys fate was determined, the way Luci reacted struck me.  I was shocked that she sided with Darney after hearing the horrible story of her father’s imprisonment.  Luci had a huge role in helping with her father’s recovery.  Therefore you would expect her to want revenge on the person responsible.  But instead the sentence of Luci's husband strikes her the most; "The wretched wife of the innocent man thus doomed to die, fell under the sentence, as if she had been mortally stricken. But, she uttered no sound; and so strong was the voice within her, representing that it was she of all the world who must uphold him in his misery and not augment it, that it quickly raised her, even from that shock...'If I might touch him! If I might embrace him once! O, good citizens, if you would have so much compassion for us!' (346).  Throughout the book Dickens has also given us the impression that Luci’s love for Doctor Manette was so strong, and he never elaborated on Luci's love for Darnay, that is why I’m surprised that she reacted stronger to her Darnay's sentence then her fathers letter.