"My father's family name being Pirrup, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip." "So I called myself Pip and came to be called Pip." "Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat." "No, sir, no." "Tell us your name." "Quick." "Pip." "Pip, sir." "Show us where you live." "Point out the place." "There, sir, there." "Now, where's your mother?" "There, sir." "No, sir." "There, sir." "also Georgiana, that's my mother." "Is that your father, alonger her?" "Yes, sir, late of this parish." "Who do you live with, supposing you are kindly let live?" "With my sister, Mrs. Gargery, wife of Joe Gargery, the blacksmith." "Blacksmith, eh?" "Now lookee here..." "You know what a file is?" "Yes, sir." "Do you know what whittles are?" "Yes, sir." "Food, sir." "Get me a file and whittles or I'll have your heart and liver out." "If you would kindly let me keep upright, sir, perhaps I shouldn't be sick and perhaps I couId attend more." "Bring that file and them whittles to this churchyard tomorrow morning." "Yes, sir." "And never dare to say a word" "of having seen such a person." "No, sir." "If you do your heart and liver shall be tore out and roasted and ate." "There's a young man hid with me." "In comparison with him I'm an angel." "That young man has a secret way of getting at a boy and his liver." "A boy may lock his door and he may be warm in bed, but that young man will softly creep his way to him and tear him open." "Say "Heaven strike me dead if I don't."" "Heaven strike me dead if I don't." "Now you know what you have promised, young man." "Get off home." "Goodnight, sir." "Hello, Joe!" "Mrs. Joe's been out a dozen times looking for you, Pip." "She's out again now, making it a baker's dozen." "Is she?" "And what's worse, she's got Tickler with her, Pip." "She got up and made a grab at Tickler and she rampaged out, Pip, and rampaged out." "She's a-coming." "Get behind the door, old chap." "And get the towel betwixt you." "You... young... devil..." "Now then, where have you been?" "I've only been to the churchyard." "You'd have been in the churchyard long ago if it hadn't been for me." "It's bad enough being a blacksmith's wife without being a mother to you." "Churchyard, indeed." "You'll be having me there one of these days." "Get to the table." "Listen." "Was that great guns, Joe?" "Yes, there's another convict off." "What does that mean, Joe?" "Oh, escaped." "Escaped." "One escaped last night, they fired a warning of him." "This must be a second one." "Where does the firing come from?" "Drat the boy." "Ask no questions..." "Mrs. Joe, I should like to know, if you wouldn't much mind, where the firing comes from." "Bless the boy, from the hulks of course." "Oh, huIks." "Please, what's huIks?" "There you go." "Answer him one question and he'll ask you a dozen." "HuIks are prison ships right across there." "I wonder who's put into prison ships and why they're put there." "People are put into prison ships because they murder and forge and rob and do all sorts of bad things." "And they always start by asking too many questions." "Now, get on with your supper and get off to bed." "A boy may be warm in bed." "He may pull the clothes right over his head." "But that young man will softly creep his way to him" "and tear him open." "No." "Wake up, Mrs. Joe." "Wake up." "Mrs. Joe, wake up." "You're a thief, Pip." "You're a thief, Pip." "You'll be sent to the hulks." "A boy with somebody else's brandy." "With somebody else's file." "With somebody else's pork pie." "Stop him!" "Hello, young thief." "I couldn't help it, sir." "Sir." "You brought no-one with you?" "No, sir." "Nor give no-one the word to follow?" "No, sir." "What's in the bottle, boy?" "Brandy." "I think you've got the ague, sir." "I'm much of your opinion, boy." "I'm glad you enjoy it." "I said I'm glad you enjoy it." "Thankee, boy." "I do." "Aren't you going to leave any of it for him?" "Him?" "Who's him?" "The young man you spoke of." "Oh, him." "No, he don't want no food." "He looked as if he did." "Looked?" "When?" "Just now." "Where?" "Over there." "Did you notice anything about him?" "He had a big scar on his face." "Not... not here?" "Yes, there." "Give us hold of that file, boy." "If you're not wanting me, sir, we have company for dinner." "And my sister will be up early." "Thankee, boy." "Thankee." "This boy ought to be truly grateful, ma'am, for the princely dinner you have set before him." "Do you hear what Uncle Pumblechook says?" "Be grateful." "Why is it the young are never grateful?" "Naturally vicious." "True." "True." "And now to finish with," "I want you all to taste the delicious, delightful gift of Uncle Pumblechook's." "It's a pie." "A savoury pork pie." "A savoury pork pie!" "Let's have a cut of this pie, Mrs. Joe, and we'll try to do it justice." "Clean plates." "cold." "I always say that a bit of savoury pork pie will lay atop of anything you may care to mention and" "do no harm." "What's the matter, boy?" "Nothing, sir." "I should say not." "Enjoying yourself with your elders and betters, improving yourself with their conversation." "Now then, son, where do you think you're off to?" "Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, but I'm on a chase in the King's name." "I want the blacksmith." "What might you want him for, pray?" "Missus, speaking for myself I should reply the honour and pleasure of his fine wife's acquaintance." "Speaking for the King, I answer a little job done." "You see, blacksmith, we've had an accident with these, and as they are wanted for immediate service," "will you throw your eye over them?" "Convicts, sergeant?" "Aye, two." "Have you seen anything of them?" "Heavens preserve us, no." "No, we haven't seen them, no." "Well, we'll find 'em." "Platoon, fall in!" "Platoon, attention!" "shoulder arms!" "Left turn!" "Platoon, march!" "If that boy comes back here with his head blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again." "I hope we don't find them, Joe." "I'd give a shilling if they'd cut and run, Pip." "Come on." "help!" "Convicts escaping!" "Come on!" "help!" "This way!" "help!" "help!" "Over here, quickly!" "This way!" "This way!" "help!" "help!" "Convicts escaping!" "Don't forget." "I took him." "I give him up to ye." "Don't forget that." "Be quiet." "He tried to murder me." "Me try to murder him!" "I kept him from getting off these marshes." "I couId have got clear, then I discovered he was here." "Let him go free and make a fool of me again?" "Let me." "Let me." "Make ready." "Present." "Fire!" "Hands." "You're expected on board." "Come on." "Light those torches." "Get aboard, you!" "Torch bearers!" "I wish to say something respecting this escape." "It might prevent some persons lying under suspicion alonger me." "What is it?" "I took some food from the blacksmith's near the village." "Over yonder." "It was a dram of liquor and a pie." "Do you happen to have missed such an article as a pie, blacksmith?" "My wife did, the very moment you came in." "Oh, so you're the blacksmith, are you?" "Then I'm sorry to say I..." "I've eat your pie." "Oh, you're welcome to it as far as ever it were mine." "We don't know what you've done, but we wouldn't have you starve to death for it, would us, Pip?" "Give way, you." "Over there." "It was a year later." "Pip." "Now if that boy ain't grateful this day, he never will be." "It's to be hoped he won't be pampered." "Not by Miss Havisham, ma'am." "She knows better." "Do you know who Miss Havisham is?" "Yes." "Who?" "The strange lady in the big house." "But she's mad, ain't she?" "She may be mad but she's rich enough to make the boy's fortune." "She wants him to go and play there." "And he had better go and play there or I'll work him." "I wonder how she came to know our Pip." "Oh!" "Lor-a-missy me." "Here I stand talking to mooncaIves and Uncle Pumblechook waiting and that boy grimed with dirt from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet." "Ring the bell, boy." "Name?" "Pumblechook." "Quite right." "Can you read the time, boy?" "Yes, sir." "A quarter past three." "punctual to the minute." "Let that be a lesson to you." "This is Pip." "So this is Pip, is it?" "Come in, Pip." "Do you wish to see Miss Havisham?" "If Miss Havisham wishes to see me." "Ah, but you see, she doesn't." "Come along, boy." "Your clock has stopped, Miss." "It should be a quarter past three." "Don't loiter, boy." "Come along, boy." "Take your hat off." "This door, boy." "After you, Miss." "Don't be silly." "I'm not coming in." "Come in." "Who is it?" "Pip, ma'am." "Pip?" "Mr. Pumblechook's boy." "Come to play." "Come nearer." "Let me look at you." "Come closer." "Look at me." "You aren't afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?" "No." "Do you know what I touch... here?" "Your heart." "Broken." "Sometimes I have sick fancies." "And I have a fancy I would like to see someone play." "Play." "Play." "Estella." "Come here." "Your own one day, my dear, and you will use it well." "Let me see you play with this boy." "With this boy?" "But he's a common labouring boy." "Look at his boots." "Well?" "You can break his heart." "What do you play, boy?" "only Beggar My Neighbour, Miss." "Beggar him!" "Four for the ace." "One for a jack." "He calls the knaves jacks, this boy." "What coarse hands he has." "You stupid, clumsy labouring boy." "She says many hard things of you, but you say nothing of her." "What do you think of her?" "I don't like to say." "Tell me, in my ear." "I think she is very proud." "Anything else?" "I think she is very pretty." "Anything else?" "I think she is very insulting." "Anything else?" "I think I should like to go home now." "And never see her again, even though she is so pretty?" "I'm not sure that I shouldn't like to see her again, but I should like to go home now." "You shall go home soon." "Play the game out." "Wait here, boy." "Why don't you cry?" "I don't want to." "You do, and you're near crying now." "Long after I had gone to bed that night, I thought of Estella." "And how common she would consider Joe, a mere blacksmith." "I thought how he and my sister were sitting in the kitchen and how Miss Havisham and Estella never sat in a kitchen but were far above the level of such things." "The following week..." "You are to come this way today, boy." "Well, I'm sure." "What next?" "Well?" "Well, Miss?" "Am I pretty?" "Yes, I think you are very pretty." "Am I insulting?" "No." "Not so much so as you were last time." "Not so much?" "No." "Now take that, you coarse little monster." "What do you think of me now?" "I shan't tell you." "Because you're going to tell upstairs, is that it?" "No, that's not it." "Why don't you cry again, you little wretch?" "I shall never cry for you again." "In there, boy." "So the days have worn away, have they?" "Yes, ma'am." "Today..." "There, there." "I know nothing of the days of the week or the weeks of the year." "Do you know what that is?" "There." "I can't guess what it is, ma'am." "It was a great cake, a bride cake." "Mine!" "On this day of the year long before you were born, that heap of decay was brought here." "It and I have worn away together." "The mice have gnawed at it, but sharper teeth than theirs have gnawed at me." "There, there." "walk me." "walk me, walk me." "Dear Miss Havisham." "Good morning." "How well you look." "I do not look well, Sarah Pocket." "I am yellow, skin and bone." "These, Pip, are my relations, the Pockets." "They are very particularly interested in my health." "So once a year on my birthday, I summon them to visit me." "Many ha..." "There." "Pip, my dear, run into the garden and play." "Estella will tell you when to come back." "Yes, ma'am." "Hello, young fellow!" "Hello." "Who gave you leave to prowl about?" "Miss Estella." "Come and fight." "Oh, just a moment though, I ought to give you a reason for fighting too." "There it is..." "Come on." "Are you satisfied with the ground?" "Quite satisfied, thank you." "Good." "Ready?" "Ready." "That means you've won." "Can I help you?" "No, thankee." "I'm quite all right." "Good afternoon then." "Same to you." "Boy!" "Boy!" "Yes, Miss?" "You may kiss me if you like." "Now you are to go home." "Three months later my sister became ill and was buried in the churchyard on the marshes." "The occasion was marked for me not so much by the passing of Mrs. Joe, but by the arrival of Biddy." "Very soon she became a trusted friend of both of us and a blessing to the household." "Biddy, I want you to help me." "Don't I help you, Pip?" "Oh, yes, you help me with my letters and figures, but this is a secret." "Oh, what is it?" "Biddy." "Yes?" "I want to be a gentleman." "A gentleman?" "I shouldn't if I were you, Pip." "I don't think it wouId answer." "Biddy, I have a particular reason for wanting to be a gentleman." "Well you know best, Pip, but don't you think you're happier as you are?" "I'm not happy as I am." "I'm coarse and common." "Coarse and common, are you, Pip?" "Who said so?" "The beautiful young lady at Miss Havisham's." "And I want to be a gentleman on her account." "Who have we here?" "A boy." "A boy from the neighbourhood, eh?" "Yes, sir." "How did you come here?" "Miss Havisham sent for me, sir." "Well behave yourself." "I have a pretty large experience of boys and you are a bad lot of fellows." "Now mind you behave yourself." "Yes, sir." "Take this in there, boy." "Yes, Miss." "From this moment I entered upon the occupation of pushing Miss Havisham in her chair." "As we became to be used to one another," "Miss Havisham asked me questions as to what I had learnt and what I was going to be." "Estella was always there and always let me in and out, but never told me I might kiss her again." "Sometimes she would coldly tolerate me and other times she told me energetically..." "I hate you." "My admiration of her knew no bounds and scarcely a night went by without my falling asleep with the image of her face before my eyes." "One day..." "Does she grow prettier and prettier, Pip?" "Yes, Miss Havisham." "There, there." "That's all till next time." "Miss Havisham." "I can't come next time." "That's sad news, Pip." "Why not?" "Tomorrow is my birthday and I'm fourteen." "And you start your apprenticeship with the blacksmith, do you not?" "Yes, Miss Havisham." "Why so glum, Pip?" "Are you not excited by your new venture?" "I used to think I would be, but I'm not now." "Pip." "Here are some golden sovereigns." "A gift from me." "Thank you, Miss Havisham." "Do with them what you please." "You've earned them well." "Thank you." "Come and see me on your next birthday." "Yes, Miss Havisham." "Estella, show him out." "Goodbye, Miss Havisham." "Goodbye, Pip." "You had better say goodbye to me because I'm going away too." "Going away?" "Yes." "I'm going to France to be educated for a lady." "To be educated for a lady?" "Yes." "Well?" "Aren't you sorry I'm going?" "Yes, Estella." "I'm very sorry." "I wish I knew when you were coming back." "I wish..." "What do you wish?" "I wish I couId kiss you goodbye." "My boyhood had ended and my life as a blacksmith began." "It was in the sixth year of my apprenticeship and it was a Friday night." "Are you the blacksmith by name Joseph or Joe Gargery?" "Yes, sir." "Have you an apprentice commonly known as Pip?" "Is he here?" "I'm Pip, sir." "So you're Pip?" "Yes, sir." "My name is Jaggers." "I'm a lawyer in London." "I wish to have a private conference with you two." "We had better go into the house." "Now, Joseph Gargery." "I am the bearer of an offer to relieve you of this young fellow." "You would not object to cancel his apprenticeship for his own good?" "You would want nothing for so doing?" "Heaven forbid I should want anything for not standing in Pip's way." "Very well then." "I come now to this young fellow." "And my communication to him is that he has great expectations." "I am instructed to communicate to him that he will come into a handsome property." "Further, it is at the desire of the present possessor of the property that he shall be immediately removed from his present sphere of life and from this place and brought up as befits a young gentleman of great expectations." "Now, Mr. Pip, you are to understand that it is at the request of the person from whom I take my instructions that you always bear the name of Pip." "If you have any objection, now is the time to mention it." "No..." "I... have no objections." "I should think not, indeed." "secondly, Mr. Pip, you are to understand that the name of the person who is your benefactor is to remain a profound secret until the person chooses to reveal it." "If you have any suspicion as to whom that person might be, keep that suspicion within your own breast." "If you have any objections, now is the time to mention it." "Speak out." "I... have no objection." "Now, Mr. Pip, kindly consider my your guardian." "I..." "Thank you, sir." "I am well paid for my services, otherwise I would not render them." "I have arranged for you to go to London in a week's time." "You will need some new clothes." "They should not be working clothes." "Twenty guineas." "Well, Joseph Gargery, you look dumbfounded." "I am." "Then goodnight, Mr. Gargery." "Goodnight, Pip." "Goodnight, sir." "Pip!" "A young gentleman of great expectations." "Biddy." "Pip!" "This is a very gay figure, Pip." "I start for London tomorrow, Miss Havisham, and I thought you would" "not mind my taking leave of you." "Well?" "I have come into such good fortune since I saw you last and I am so grateful for it." "I have seen Mr. Jaggers, Pip." "I have heard all about it." "So you go tomorrow." "Yes, Miss Havisham." "And you are adopted by a rich person." "Not married?" "No, Miss Havisham." "And Mr. Jaggers is your guardian." "Yes, Miss Havisham." "Is Est...?" "Abroad." "Prettier than ever, and admired by all who see her." "And you too have a promising career before you." "Be good, Pip, and deserve it." "Yes, Miss Havisham." "You will always keep the name of Pip, you know." "Yes, Miss Havisham." "Goodbye, Pip." "Well..." "Goodbye, Joe." "God bless you, dear old Pip." "God bless you." "Goodbye, Biddy." "Goodbye, Pip." "One day I'll come and see you in London, Pip, and then what larks, eh?" "Goodbye." "Goodbye to you." "Hey, London." "Excuse me, please." "Is Mr. Jaggers at home?" "He is not." "He's in court at present." "Am I addressing Mr. Pip?" "Yes, I'm Mr. Pip." "Mr. Jaggers left word would you wait in this room." "Come this way, please." "He wouldn't say how long he might be, but it stands to reason, his time being valuable, he won't be longer than he can help." "Go and wait outside, Mike." "I hope I'm not interrupting." "certainly not." "Your first time in London, Mr. Pip?" "Yes, sir." "I was new here once." "Rum to think of it now." "Whose likeness is that?" "That?" "This is our most famous client." "Got us a world of credit." "This chap murdered his master and didn't plan it badly." "Is it like him?" "Like him?" "It is him, you know." "This cast was made in Newgate directly he was taken down." "Your man comes on this afternoon, have you got the witness?" "Yes, Mr. Jaggers." "Wait here." "Mr." "Pip's here." "Good." "So you arrived safely, Mr. Pip." "Good morning, Mr. Jaggers." "Ah, we shall soon settle you." "Wemmick, Mr. Pip's file." "Wemmick here will conduct you to Mr. Herbert Pocket's rooms in Barnards Inn, where you will live." "Oh, sit down, Mr. Pip, sit down." "Mr. Pocket will be able to give you a good lead as to the places in London with which you should become acquainted." "I take it that that is agreeable." "Yes, Mr. Jaggers." "Ah, next, money." "Your allowance will be 250 pounds per annum." "Which means that you will draw from Wemmick here the sum of sixty-five pounds ten shillings per quarter." "A very handsome sum of money too, I think." "Do you consider it so?" "How could I do otherwise?" "Ah, but answer the question." "undoubtedly, Mr. Jaggers." "Good." "Get out." "Here is a list of the tradespeople with whom you may run up an account." "Take Mr. Pip to Barnards Inn." "Yes, sir." "I shall check the bills and pull you up if I see you getting on too well." "Of course, you'll go wrong somehow, but that's no fault of mine." "Goodbye and good luck, Mr. Pip." "Thank you, sir." "Mike!" "Mr. Wemmick, I don't quite know what to make of Mr. Jaggers." "He don't mean that you should know what to make of him." "Deep, that's what he is." "As Australia." "Who was that he shouted at?" "Oh, his housekeeper, name of Molly." "He got her off on a murder charge." "Murder?" "Isn't he frightened of having her about?" "Not him." "When you come to see us again, take a good look at her." "Shall I see anything very uncommon?" "You'll see a wild beast tamed." "Keep your eye on it." "Here we are." "Pocket's on the first floor." "You don't want me any more?" "Er, no, thank you, Mr. Wemmick." "As I keep the cash, we shall most likely meet pretty often." "Very glad, I'm sure, to make your acquaintance." "Good day." "Good day, sir." "Mr. Pip?" "Mr. Pocket?" "I'm extremely sorry." "But the fact is I've been out on your account, for I thought that coming from the country, you might like some fruit." "I went to Covent Garden to get it." "Thank you." "It's very nice of you." "Can I take the parcels?" "It sticks, you know." "Pray come in." "This is the sitting room." "Rather musty, but Barnards is musty." "I'm afraid I'm rather bare here." "Now, that's my little bedroom." "And this is yours." "Come in." "Oh, it's very nice." "The furniture's specially hired." "Oh, I hope..." "Dear me." "I beg your pardon." "You are holding the fruit all this time." "I feel quite ashamed." "You will be very quiet here and we shall be along together, but I dare say we shan't fight." "Fight!" "I knew I'd seen you before." "You are the Pale Young Gentleman from Miss Havisham's." "Bless me." "And you are the Prowling Boy." "The idea of it being you..." "Well, the idea of it being you." "I hope you'll forgive me for having knocked you about so." "Oh, of course." "You hadn't come into your good fortune at that time, had you?" "I was rather on the lookout for good fortune then." "Indeed?" "If Miss Havisham had taken a liking to me, I'd have been provided for." "Perhaps I should even have been engaged to Estella." "But I didn't care much for it." "She's a Tartar." "Who?" "Miss Havisham?" "I meant Estella." "You know she was adopted and brought up by Miss Havisham to wreak revenge on all the male sex?" "Wreak revenge on the male sex?" "What revenge?" "Heavens, Mr. Pip, I thought you knew." "Dear me, it is quite a story," "and it shall be saved till dinner." "Shall I take your cane?" "Thank you." "And your hat." "Herbert?" "Yes, my dear Pip." "As I have been brought up by a blacksmith," "I'd take it as a great kindness if you'd give me a hint when I go wrong in my manners." "With pleasure, though I should guess you need very few hints." "Thank you very much." "Now" "tell me more of Miss Havisham." "Ah, yes, Miss Havisham." "But let me point out the topic that in London it is not the custom to put the knife in the mouth for fear of accidents." "It's scarcely worth mentioning, only it's as well to do as others do." "I must apologise." "Thank you." "Not at all, I'm sure." "Now, Miss Havisham was an heiress, and, as you may well suppose, was looked upon as a great match." "Well, one day there appeared on the scene a certain man." "I never saw him for this was twenty-five years ago." "But he pursued her closely and professed to be devoted to her, and there is no doubt that she fell passionately in love with him." "Which brings me to the cruel part of the story." "merely breaking off, my dear Pip, to remark that it is not considered necessary to fill the mouth to its capacity." "Sorry, thank you." "Not at all, I'm sure." "The marriage day was arranged, the wedding dresses were bought, the wedding guests were invited." "The day came, but not the bridegroom." "He wrote a letter." "Which she received when she was dressing for her wedding at 8.40?" "exactly." "So that was why she stopped the clocks." "And when she recovered from a bad illness, she laid the place waste, as you have seen it, and has never since looked upon the light of day." "Herbert, you said that" "Estella was not related to Miss Havisham but only adopted." "When adopted?" "There has always been an Estella since I have heard of a Miss Havisham." "I know no more." "So Pip, all I know about Miss Havisham, you know." "But let us change to brighter prospects." "Let us drink to London and a very happy future." "To London and a very happy future." "Three, four..." "All together, Mr. Pip." "That's right." "That's better." "Much better." "Enjoy yourself." "Ready?" "Ready." "Forgive me, Herbert." "Carry on, Pip, carry on." "And so if I couId buy some new furniture and one or two other things, I think I would be quite at home at Barnards Inn." "I knew you'd get on." "How much do you want?" "Twenty pounds." "Wemmick!" "Well, Pip." "I should say you were at home." "Herbert?" "Yes?" "We have done very badly." "Very badly." "Thank heaven for my birthday." "Good morning, Mr. Pip." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Morning." "Congratulations." "Thank you, Mr. Wemmick." "Come in." "Mr." "Pip, sir." "Come in." "Twenty-one, eh, Pip?" "I must call you Mr. Pip today." "Congratulations." "Thank you, Mr. Jaggers." "Sit down." "Now, my young friend, I'm going to have a word with you." "If you please, sir." "What do you suppose you are living at the rate of?" "At the rate of, Mr. Jaggers?" "The rate of." "I'm..." "I'm afraid I am unable to answer." "I thought so." "But I have asked you a question, my friend." "Have you anything to ask me?" "Well..." "It would be a great relief to ask you several, were it not forbidden." "Ask one." "Is my benefactor to be made known to me today?" "No." "Ask another." "Well, I..." "I was just wondering if I had anything to receive." "I thought we should come to that." "Wemmick!" "Mr. Pip, you have been spending pretty freely of late, and you are in debt, of course." "I'm afraid I must say yes, sir." "You know you must say yes, don't you?" "Yes, sir." "Wemmy, hand Mr. Pip that piece of paper." "Now, unfold it and tell me what it is." "It is a bank note for 500 pounds." "That is a bank note for 500 pounds, and at the rate of that handsome sum per annum, and at no higher rate, you are to live until your benefactor appears." "Will it... will it still be years hence, Mr. Jaggers?" "When that person discloses, you and that person will settle your own affairs." "My part of the business will cease." "That is all I have to say." "Wemmick, show Mr. Pip out." "Thank you, Mr. Jaggers." "My dear Mr. Pip," "Mr. Gargery is going to London and would be glad, if you are agreeable, to be allowed to see you." "He would call Tuesday morning at nine o'clock." "We talk of you in the kitchen every night and wonder what you are saying and doing." "No more, dear Mr. Pip, from your ever obliged and affectionate servant," "Biddy." "As I watched Joe that Tuesday morning grotesquely in a new suit, let me confess that if I could have kept him away by paying money, I certainly would have paid money." "In trying to become a gentleman I had succeeded in becoming a snob." "Joe." "How are you, Joe?" "Pip." "How are you, Pip?" "Come in, Joe." "Well, Joe, I am glad to see you." "Pip, dear old chap, you've growed and you've swelled, and you've gentlefoIked as to be sure you're an honour to your king and country." "And you, Joe, look wonderfully well." "Give me you hat." "Herbert, This is Mr. Joe Gargery." "Joe, Mr. Herbert Pocket." "How do you do, Mr. Gargery?" "Your servant, sir." "Won't you sit down?" "Thank you kindly, sir." "Will you take tea or coffee, Mr. Gargery?" "Oh, thank you kindly, sir." "I'll take whichever is most agreeable to yourself." "What do you say to coffee?" "Thank you kindly, sir." "Since you are so good as to make choice of coffee," "I'll not run contrary to your opinion, but don't you find that rather heating?" "Take tea then." "Pip, if Mr. Gargery will excuse me," "I will go down to the porter's lodge and fetch the morning's letters." "Thank you kindly, sir." "Us two being now alone, sir..." "Joe, how can you call me sir?" "Us two being now alone, Pip," "I will mention what has led to my having the present honour." "Miss Havisham has recently sent" "for me." "Miss Havisham, Joe?" ""would you tell Mr. Pip," she says," ""that I wish to see him at once, for I have something most particular to disclose to him."" "I see." "Well, I have now concluded, sir and Pip." "I wish you ever well and ever prospering to a greater and greater height." "But you are not going now, Joe?" "Yes, I am." "Well, you will be coming back for dinner?" "Oh no, Pip, old chap." "You and me is not two figures to be together in London." "I'm wrong in these clothes, Pip." "I'm wrong out of the forge and out of the kitchen, off the marshes." "But Joe..." "You won't find half so much fault with me if you think of me as Joe the blacksmith." "So," "God bless you, dear old Pip, old chap." "God bless you." "All that day" "Joe's simple dignity filled me with reproach." "And next morning I began the journey to our town, knowing that I should sleep that night at the forge." "But as the miles went by, I became less convinced of this, and I invented reasons and excuses for not doing so." "Joe, Pip's here." "Oh, we didn't expect you, Pip." "Pip, your bed's not ready." "We thought for certain you'd be staying in the town." "You must stay in the town." "Gentlemen always stay at the Blue Boar." "Blue Boar, Rochester." "All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindler." "And with such pretences did I cheat myself." "Surely a curious thing." "Come in, Pip." "How do you do?" "How do you do, Miss Havisham?" "You kiss my hand as if I were a queen." "Well?" "I thought that you were so kind as to wish to see me, Miss Havisham." "Well?" "Estella!" "Well, Pip." "This is an unexpected pleasure." "I did not think to find you here." "You two will have a lot to say to each other." "Go out into the garden, both of you, and walk and talk together." "I was a strange little creature to hide and watch you fight that day." "But I did, and I enjoyed it very much." "You rewarded me very much." "Did I?" "Don't you remember?" "I remember I entertained a great objection to your opponent." "I took it ill that he should be brought here to pester me." "He and I are great friends now." "I imagine that since your change of fortune you have naturally changed your companions." "Oh, yes, naturally." "Do you remember the first time I came here, the time you made me cry?" "Did I?" "I don't remember." "Not remember you made me cry?" "You meant nothing to me, why should I remember?" "You must know, Pip, that I have no heart." "Perhaps that's why I have no memory." "No-one looking at you could believe that." "Oh, I have a heart to be stabbed at, or shot at, but you know what I mean." "There's no sympathy, no softness, no sentiment." "If we are to be thrown much together you had better believe that at once." "I cannot believe it, Estella." "Very well." "It's said, at any rate." "But remember how I have been brought up and don't expect too much of me." "Come, Pip." "You shall not shed tears for my cruelty today." "We'll go just once more round the garden and then go in." "Miss Havisham will be expecting you at your old post." "Is she beautiful, graceful, well-grown?" "Do you admire her, Pip?" "Everyone must who see her." "She is going to London soon and you shall meet her there." "I shall be the happiest man in London, Miss Havisham." "Love her." "If she favours you, love her." "If she tears your heart to pieces, love her." "I adopted her to be loved." "I developed her into..." "As punctual as ever, Jaggers." "As punctual as ever." "How do you do, Pip?" "And what are you doing here?" "Miss Havisham wished me to see Estella, Mr. Jaggers." "A fine young lady." "Shall I give you a ride, Miss Havisham?" "Once round?" "A very fine young lady, Pip." "Estella!" "Pip!" "How nice to see you, Estella." "My lesson from Miss Havisham is this." "There are two Richmonds, one in Surrey and one in Yorkshire." "Mine is the Surrey Richmond." "The distance is 10 miles and you are to take me there." "Here is my purse." "No, no." "No, you must take it." "We are not free to follow our own devices, you and I." "The carriage is ordered for half an hour from now and tea is ordered to while away that half hour." "Does that please m'lady?" "The tea will please her greatly." "Why are you going to Richmond, Estella?" "I am going to live, at a great expense, with a lady there who has the power, or says she has, of taking me about and introducing me and showing people to me," "and showing me to people." "You will be much admired." "You must look forward to that, Estella." "It is part of Miss Havisham's plan for me, Pip." "I shall not take great pleasure in events in which I do not shape, but I will be beautiful and I will be gay, and I will be obedient and I will write regularly of my gaiety." "Will you always be part of Miss Havisham's plan, Estella?" "And do you thrive with Mr. Pocket, Pip?" "Yes indeed." "We have left Barnards Inn and moved to the Temple." "I live quite pleasantly there, at least..." "At least?" "As pleasantly as I couId anywhere away from you." "All through that summer I saw a great deal of Estella and I was very happy." "Until I realised, somewhat uncomfortably, that she had many admirers." "It was not until the winter that fate threw her in the way... of Bentley Drummel." "Are you tired, Estella?" "Rather, Pip." "You should be." "Say rather I should not be, Pip, for I have my letter to write to Miss Havisham before I go to bed." "Recounting tonight's triumph?" "surely a very poor one, Estella." "I don't know what you mean." "I didn't know there had been any." "My lords, ladies and gentlemen..." "This is our dance, Estella." "Pray take your places for the next dance." "Estella, look at DrummeI." "He never takes his eyes off you." "Why should I look at him?" "Is there anything in DrummeI that I need to look at?" "That's the question I want to ask you." "He has been hovering about you for weeks." "Moths and all sorts of ugly creatures hover about a candle." "Can the candle help it?" "My lords, ladies and gentlemen, pray take your partners for the Spanish polka." "Everybody dislikes him, you must know that." "There is nothing to recommend him but money and a ridiculous roll of addle-headed ancestors." "It makes me wretched to see you encourage him." "Does it?" "You give him looks and smiles such as you never give to me." "Do you want me then to deceive and entrap you?" "Do you deceive and entrap him, Estella?" "Yes, and many others." "All of them but you." "Who do you want?" "Mr. Pip." "I am Mr. Pip." "What is your business?" "My business?" "Ah, yes..." "I will explain my business by your leave." "Do you..." "Do you wish to come in?" "Yes, I wish to come in, master." "Now perhaps you will explain your visit?" "It is disappointing to a man after having looked forward so distant and come so far." "But you are not to blame for that." "What do you mean?" "I will speak in half a minute, give me half a minute, please." "There's no-one nigh, is there?" "Why do you ask that question?" "Oh, you're a game one." "I'm glad you growed up to be a game one." "Now I know who you are." "The churchyard..." "The churchyard on the marshes." "You are the convict I gave the food to." "You acted nobly, my boy, noble Pip, and I never forgot it." "If you are grateful to me for what I did when I was a child, and if you have come to thank me, there is no need." "However, since you have found me out, will you drink something before you go?" "Yes, I will drink, I thank you." "Afore I go..." "I hope you won't think I spoke harshly to you just now." "I had no intention of doing so and I am sorry for it if I did." "I wish you well and happy." "How have you been living?" "I have been a sheep farmer away in the new world, in New South Wales." "I hope you have done well." "I have done wonderfully well." "I am very glad to hear it." "I hoped to hear you say so." "You've done well too, eh?" "Yes, I have done quite well." "May I make so bold as to ask how you have done so well since you and me were out on those lone shivering marshes?" "How?" "Yes, I have been chosen to succeed to some property." "May a mere varmint ask what property?" "I don't know." "May a mere varmint ask whose property?" "I don't know." "could I make a guess at your income since you have come of age?" "As to the first figure now... five?" "Concerning a guardian..." "There ought to have been a guardian or such like while you were a minor." "Some lawyer maybe?" "As to the first letter of that lawyer's name, now..." "would it be "J"?" "As the employer of that lawyer whose name began with "J", and might be Jaggers..." "I wrote to a person in London for particulars of your address." "That person's name... why..." "Wemmick!" "Yes, Pip, dear boy, I made a gentleman of you." "It's me what done it." "I swore as ever I earned a guinea, that guinea should go to you." "That there hunted dog what you kept life in got his head so high he could make a gentleman." "And Pip you're him." "Why, Pip, I'm your second father and you are my son." "Look how good-looking you've grown." "There's a pair of bright eyes somewhere, eh?" "Is there a pair of bright eyes that you love the thought of?" "They're yourn, dear boy, if money can buy them." "But didn't you ever think it might be me?" "No... never." "Well, you see it was me and single-handed." "Never a soul in it but my own self and Mr. Jaggers." "Was there no-one else?" "No." "Who else should there be?" "Where are you going to put me?" "Put...?" "Aye, to sleep." "Well, I..." "Who is that?" "Don't be alarmed." "It's Mr. Pocket, who shares these rooms with me." "Phew... what a night!" "Hello!" "Herbert, something... something very strange has happened." "This is a visitor of mine." "Take it in your right hand." "Say "Strike me dead on the spot if I split in any way whatever."" "Strike me dead on the spot if I split in any way whatever." "Kiss it." "Do as he says, Herbert." "Now you're on oath." "Come in." "You can go now, Molly." "Now, Pip, be careful." "I will, sir." "Don't commit yourself." "Don't commit anyone," "you understand?" "Anyone." "Mr." "Jaggers, I..." "Don't tell me anything." "I don't want to know." "I'm not curious." "I merely want to assure myself that what I have been told is true." "Did you say told or informed?" "told would seen to imply verbal communication." "You can't have verbal communication with a man in New South Wales." "I will say informed, sir." "Good." "I have been informed by a person named AbeI Magwitch that he is the benefactor so long unknown to me." "That is the man..." "in New South Wales." "And only he?" "And only he." "I am not so unreasonable, sir, as to think you at all responsible for my mistakes and wrong conclusions, but I always supposed it was Miss Havisham." "As you say, Pip, I am not at all responsible for that." "And yet it looked so like it, sir." "Not a particle of evidence, Pip." "Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence." "There is no better rule." "Well, I have nothing more to say." "You should know I communicated to AbeI Magwitch in New South Wales reminding him that if ever he should present himself in this country, it wouId be an act of felony, rendering him liable to the extreme penalty of the law." "Take a look out of that window, Pip." "That sort of thing happens every day." "Magwitch has enemies here who would not hesitate to inform on him." "I see." "By he has guided himself by my caution, no doubt." "No doubt." "If you will excuse me, sir." "There is no other alternative." "He has to be got out of the country and I shall have to go with him." "Why must you go with him?" "He has risked all on my account and" "I cannot do less than stand by him." "What will you say to Estella?" "I am at a loss to know what to say to her." "She would never understand about him." "But I must see her before I go." "Ha!" "Just come down?" "Yes." "BeastIy place, your part of the country, I think." "I am going out for a ride in the saddle." "I mean to explore these marshes for amusement." "Out-of-the-way villages there, they tell me." "Curious little public houses and smithies, and that." "Mr. DrummeI, I did not seek this conversation and I don't find it a very agreeable one." "I'm sure you don't, but don't lose your temper." "Haven't you lost enough?" "What do you mean?" "Look here, you sir." "The lady is joining me later, so take her horse round to her house in an hour's time." "Very good, sir." "And tell the waiter I don't dine because I'm dining with the lady." "Aye, aye!" "Come on." "And what wind blows you here, Pip?" "I went to Richmond yesterday to speak to Estella, and finding that some wind had blown her here I followed." "What I have to say to Estella I will say before you in a few minutes." "It will not surprise you, it will not displease you." "I am as unhappy as you could ever have meant me to be." "I have found out who my benefactor is." "It is not a fortunate discovery and is not likely ever to enrich me in reputation, station, fortune, anything." "But there are reasons why I must say no more than that." "It is not my secret but another's." "It is not your secret but another's?" "Well?" "When you first caused me to be brought here, Miss Havisham," "I suppose I really came here as any other chance boy might have come, as a kind of servant to gratify a want or whim and to be paid for it." "Aye, Pip, I did." "And Mr. Jaggers was..." "Mr. Jaggers had nothing to do with it." "His being my lawyer and the lawyer of your patron is a coincidence." "He holds the same relation towards numbers of people." "But when I fell into the mistake, at least you led me on." "Yes," "I let you go on." "Was that kind?" "Who am I for heaven's sake that I should be kind?" "Well, well, what else?" "Estella." "I should have spoken sooner but for my long mistake." "It led me to believe that Miss Havisham meant us for one another." "I felt I couId not tell you of my real feelings while you were not free to choose for yourself." "Now I have to go away." "So I must say it before I go." "I love you, Estella." "I've loved you ever since I first saw you in this house." "I have tried to warn you not to love me but you would not be warned." "You thought I didn't mean it." "Is it true that Bentley DrummeI is in town here and pursuing you?" "Quite true." "That you encourage him and ride out with him and that he dines with you this very day?" "Quite true." "But you cannot fling yourself at such a man." "should I rather fling myself at you, Pip, who would sense at once that I bring nothing to you?" "But you can't love him, Estella." "What have I always told you?" "Do you still think in spite of it that I don't mean what I say?" "Estella... you... you would never marry him?" "Why not tell the truth." "I am going to be married to him." "Come, Pip." "Don't be afraid of my being a blessing to him." "I shall not be that." "Here is my hand." "Let us part on that." "You will get me out of your thoughts in a week." "What have I done?" "What have I done?" "If you mean what have you done to me, Miss Havisham, let me answer." "Estella has been part of my existence ever since" "I first came here the common boy whose heart she wounded even then." "She has been the embodiment of every graceful fancy my mind has ever known." "To the last hour of my life she cannot choose but to remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil." "But you may dismiss me from your mind and conscience." "But Estella is a different case." "And if you can ever undo any scrap of what you have done amiss in keeping part of her right from her, it will be better to do that than to bemoan the past through a hundred years." "Late that evening I left the room with the long table for the last time and started on my way back to London." "Mr." "Pip, I believe." "Good morning." "Good morning, Ben." "I have a note for you, sir." "The messenger who brought it said it's urgent." "Get me a cab off the stand, Ben." "Yes, sir." "Wemmick, what's the trouble?" "So you got my note then?" "Yes, I came straight here." "What have you done to your hands?" "Oh, it's nothing." "I got them burnt." "Mr Wemmick, I'm very anxious..." "Everything's taken care of, Mr. Pip." "But first come in." "You don't object to an aged parent, I hope?" "Oh, no, no." "I shall be delighted." "This is Mr. Pip, Aged P." "And I wish you could hear his name." "Give him a nod, Mr. Pip, that's what he likes." "You have made the acquaintance of my son at his office, I expect." "Yes." "Nod away to him if you please." "Yes, yes." "I hear that my son is a wonderful hand at his business, sir." "You are as proud of me as punch, ain't you, Aged P?" "There's a nod for you." "There's another one for you." "Now Mr. Pip and I have business to discuss." "Come and sit down." "I want to offer an apology." "He isn't capable of many pleasures." "Just tip him a nod now and then and he'll be as happy as a king." "I'm sure you'll appreciate I am most anxious to know what has happened." "Of course." "Now," "I heard by chance yesterday morning that an old enemy of a certain convict whose name we needn't mention had got wind of his being in England." "So I went to the Temple and found Mr. Herbert." "and I told him that if he was aware of any such person, whose name we needn't mention, being about your chambers, he'd better get him out of the way." "I also heard that you were being watched." "That I have been watched?" "Yes." "And might be watched again, so he had better get him out of the way while you were out of the way." "I see." "He would be greatly puzzled what to do." "He was, but I... we, have now moved him to a house overlooking the river down Limehouse way." "I should like to join him at once." "If you take my advice, Mr. Pip, you will wait till after dark." "By which time, you see, we can have those hands attended to." "Good evening, ma'am." "Good evening, sir." "Thank you, Mrs. Whimple." "And you can send up our suppers, if you will." "Very good, sir." "How is he?" "I'm a heavy grubber, dear boy." "always was." "Are you sure you can rely on Wemmick's judgement and sources?" "Aye, Wemmick knows." "He spoke to me of a particular enemy of yours." "Do you know who that might be?" "Aye." "That was the man you saw me fighting with near the marshes, with a scar." "He turned informer on me then to save his own skin." "And he'd do it again to see me hanged." "But no sneaking rat like him's going to make me leave my boy." "If you're worried about that there's no need." "I'm coming with you." "No!" "You're a game 'un." "What a game 'un my boy's turned out to be, eh?" "The following day, I sent Herbert to make some enquiries." "He found that the packet boat for the continent left Gravesend Pier at high tide every Thursday." "I set myself to hire a boat." "It was soon done." "I couldn't get rid of the notion of being watched." "And how many undesigning persons I suspected of watching me, it would be hard to calculate." "I began to go out as for training and practice, sometimes alone, sometimes with Herbert." "We were out in all weathers, and became, as was our intention, familiar figures on the river." "My burns were still very painful." "We made it a practice that Herbert should embark from the place nearest to the house where our convict was hidden." "As the hours of the tide changed, we took to going further downriver." "There, on the marshes, we found a lone public house where we decided to stay on the night of our escape." "And from a nearby buoy we planned the passing of the packet boat." "We chose this spot carefully." "It was just above the point where the steamer picks up the river pilot." "The river pilot." "Our river pilot." "One day," "Herbert bought two steamship tickets and our plans were set." "Boat ahoy." "Ahoy there." "Tell me something." "What, dear boy?" "What I did for you as a child was such a small thing." "Why have you done so much for me?" "I had a child of my own once, Pip." "A little girl who I loved and lost." "What happened to her?" "I don't know." "It's a dark part of my life, dear boy." "Ain't worth telling." "But when on those lone shivering marshes a boy was kind to a haIf-starved convict, that boy took the place of the child he had lost." "A little on your left." "Here she comes!" "One." "Two." "One." "Two." "You have an escaped convict there." "That's the man in the stern." "I call upon him to surrender and you to assist." "I'll never forgive myself for this." "I'm all right, dear boy." "I'm content to have seen my boy and to take my chance." "Jaggers will help us, he'll get out off all right." "Prisoners at the bar." "It is now my duty to pronounce the sentence demanded by the law." "The sentence of this court is that you will be taken hence to the place from whence you came and from thence to the place of execution." "And that each of you there shall be hanged by the neck until you are dead." "And may almighty God have mercy on your souls." "Are you absolutely certain there is nothing you can do to save him?" "Nothing." "You realise of course that you no longer inherit his money." "That will be claimed by the Crown." "The money is of no interest to me." "If you had been a blood relation, it might have been different, but you are not a blood relation, therefore it is not different." "You mean if he had a child, the money might go to the child?" "The money might go to the child." "Mr. Jaggers, there was a child." "So you think there was child?" "I know there was a child and what is more, Mr. Jaggers, you know it." "Sit down, Pip." "I am going to put a case to you, Pip, but I admit nothing." "I understand, you admit nothing." "Put the case that a woman is charged with murder." "Put the case that this woman has a child whose father is a convict." "I understand perfectly." "But that I make no admissions." "But that you make no admissions." "Now, Pip, put the case that this woman's legal advisor knows an eccentric and very rich lady who is anxious to adopt a little girl." "You understand, Pip?" "I understand." "But I can hardly believe." "Ring that bell, Mr. Pip." "Yes, sir?" "Basin." "Yes, sir." "Well, Pip?" "If I am in my right mind and that woman is Estella's mother, this legal advisor you mention will have a lot to answer for." "Now, Pip." "Put the case of this legal advisor who has often seen children tried at the criminal bar." "Put the case that he has known them to be habitually imprisoned, whipped neglected, cast out, qualified in all ways for the hangman, and growing up to be hanged." "Put the case that here was one pretty little child out of the heap that could be saved." "Put the last case to yourself very carefully, Pip." "I do, Mr. Jaggers." "Did he do right?" "He did right." "Good." "Does Estella know?" "You mean does the little girl know?" "Yes." "No, she does not know." "She must never be told." "As to that she has a claim to her father's property..." "The legal advisor must use his own judgement." "Her father's condition is considerably worse." "He has been moved to the prison infirmary." "Dear boy." "I thought you wasn't coming, yet I knew somehow that you would." "It is just the time." "I waited at the gate so as not to lose a moment of it." "God bless you." "You have never deserted me and what is best of all," "you have been more comfortable alonger me since I was under a dark cloud" "than when the sun shone." "That's the best of all." "Are you in pain?" "I don't complain of none, dear boy." "You never do complain." "You had better stay." "I have something to tell you." "Can you understand what I say?" "You had a child once who you loved and lost." "She lived and found powerful friends." "She is living now." "She is a lady and very beautiful." "And I love her." "Oh Lord, be merciful to him... a sinner." "Get out of the way, you fool!" "Is it Joe?" "Which it are, old chap." "How long, Joe?" "Which you mean to say, Pip?" "How long have your illness lasted?" "Yes, Joe." "Well, it's the end of april, Pip." "Tomorrow's the first of May." "Dear Joe." "Have you been here all the time?" "Well, pretty nigh, old chap." "Joe." "Where am I?" "You're home." "I brought you home, dear old Pip, old chap." "Oh, Joe!" "You break my heart." "Please don't be so good to me." "Now lookee here, old chap, ever the best of friends." "You'll soon be well enough to go out again." "And then, oh, what larks!" "Biddy." "You have the best husband in the world." "And Joe, you have the best wife." "Which I know, Pip, old chap." "You will be very happy." "Which is our intention, old chap." "And you'll have children." "Which is also our intention, Pip, old chap." "One day, Pip, you will marry too." "I don't think I shall, Biddy." "Not now." "Dear Pip." "Do you still fret for her?" "I think of her." "But that poor dream, Biddy, has all gone by." "All gone by." "I knew as I said these words that I secretly intended to visit the old house that evening." "What name?" "#Pumblechook.#" "Quite right." "Come in, Pip." "I know nothing of days of the week and nothing of weeks of the year." "Don't loiter, boy." "Come along, boy." "Take your hat off." "Whom have we here?" "#A boy.#" "A boy of the neighbourhood, eh?" "But he's a common labouring boy." "You can break his heart." "This door, boy." "Pip!" "Estella!" "Estella!" "What are you doing here?" "I thought you were in Paris with your husband." "I have no husband, Pip." "Have you not heard?" "I've been ill." "I've heard nothing." "When Jaggers disclosed to Bentley DrummeI my true parentage, he no longer wished to have me for a wife." "Well, Pip, why don't you laugh?" "You have every right." "I have no wish to laugh, Estella." "I am truly sorry." "You've no need to pity me." "It simplifies my life." "There is now no need to sell the house." "It's mine and I'll live here." "I shall like it here, Pip." "Away from the world and all its complications." "Estella." "How long have you been here?" "I don't know." "Estella, you must leave this house." "It's a dead house." "Nothing can live here." "Leave it, Estella, I beg of you." "What do you mean?" "This is the house where I grew up." "It's part of me." "It's my home." "It's Miss Havisham's home." "But she's gone." "Gone from this house, from you, from both of us." "She is not gone." "She is still here with me in this room, in this very room." "Then I defy her." "I have come back, Miss Havisham." "I have come back, to let in the sunlight." "Look, Estella!" "Look!" "Nothing but dust and decay." "I never ceased to love you even when there seemed no hope for my love." "You are part of my existence, part of myself." "Estella, come with me, out into the sunlight." "Look at me." "Pip." "I'm afraid." "Look at me." "We belong to each other." "Let's start again." "Together." "Oh, Pip!"