Pleasure Reading: Part 3

Having arrived in London, Pip came to Mr. Jaggers office. And as Jaggers were busy, Wemmick, his clerk, introduced Pip to Herbert, the son of Pip's  tutor. They spent the evening together. And as it turned out, they had met befor at the Miss Havisham's. Herbert told the whole story of Miss Havisham. She had a half-brother, who instigated her fiance to take her money and run away. From that moment the life in Havisham's mansion had stopped, at the time she got a note from her belover. And later, Miss Havisham adopted Estella, but Herbert did not know when or where.

On the other day, Pip went to Matthew Pocket’s house to be tutored and to have dinner. The Pockets’ home was a bustling, chaotic place where the servants run the show. Nevertheless, Pip continued to get to know his fellow students and the Pockets, and also he attended dinners at both Wemmick’s and Jaggers’s. 

Joe came to visit Pip in London. But Pip was very rude and indifferent to Joe, until he told Pip that Estella returned to Satis House and that she wished to see Pip. Hoping to see Estella and to apologize to Joe, Pip traveled home, forced to share a coach with a pair of convicts, one of whom was the mysterious stranger who gave Pip money in the pub. Though this man did not recognize Pip, Pip overheard him explaining that the convict Pip helped that long-ago night in the marshes had asked him to deliver the money to Pip. Pip was so terrified by the recollections that he got off the coach at its first stop within the town limits.

The next day Pip came to visit Miss Havisham and Estella. Pip walked with Estella in the garden, but she treated him with indifference, and he became upset. Pip realized that she reminded him of someone, but he couldn’t place the resemblance. Back inside, he discovered Jaggers there and felt oppressed by the lawyer’s heavy presence. When he returned in low spirits to London, Herbert tried to cheer him up. Also Herbert confessed to Pip that he, too, was in love and, in fact, had a fiancée named Clara, but he was too poor to marry her.