"'Your confidence in me ought to be returned with full confidence on my part. My present name, though slightly changed from my motheris, is not, as you will remember, my own. I wish to tell you what that is, and why I am in England.' 'Stop!' said the Doctor of Beauvais'" (141).
This passage is in the chapter Two Promises. Although this passage makes no direct mention of prison, there is a hint about Dr. Manette pre-prison life. The first big hint is that Dickens' refers to him as Doctor of Beauvais. The timing of this use of the name comes when Charles Darnay is about to tell him his real name. From the previous chapters we know that there is something about Charles Darnay that Dr Manette doesn't like which could be his family, which may have had to do with his imprisonment. The fact that the name Doctorr of Beauvais comes up when Darnay is talking about his secret makes me believe that this name is a secret of Doctor Manette's from before his imprisonment.
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I noticed how this is the first time Dicken's mentioned the Doctor of Beauvais's full title as well while I was reading. In this passage Dickens uses foreshadowing to hint at events soon to come, i.e. what is Darnay's true connection to Dr. Manette. Some of these connections have been confirmed already in our readings, one of which is shown by Dr. Manette's reaction when Darnay finally tells him on his wedding day what he wanted to tell him in this passage. Dr. Manette mind gets sent back to what can be referred to as his "prison stage" after their talk, which infers what they discussed strongly connects to his time spent in the Bastille.
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