Great Expectations Page #6

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as it gets older, it will teardeeper,

but love her, love her, love her!

I adopted herto be loved.

I bred herto be oved.

I educated herand I developed her

into what she is.

You knowwhat love is, Pip?

It is blind devotion.

It is self-humiation.

It is degradation.

It is uttersubmission, giving up

your heart and soul as I did to that man.

JAGGERS:
Miss Havisham!

Enough excitement for one day.

Pip, you've been requested to escort

Estella to London in the morning.

I suggest an early night.

Miss Havisham.

Shall we take a trip?

Once round?

(HUMMING)

# Old Clem, wlth a thump and a sound

# Old Clem

# Beat it out, beat it out

# Old Clem with a... #

(HUMS)

ESTELLA:
Mrs Brandley is to be paid a large

sum of money to introduce me to society.

Thejewels and I.

- We are to be shown to people...

- Hurry up!

...and people are to be shown to us.

- And may I come and see you?

- Of course.

Miss Havisham expects it.

If my time permits.

I see bills from vintners,

bills from jewellers, from bookmakers.

I suspected you would go wrong, Pip,

but really you are excelling yourself.

I'll endeavour to show more restraint.

Oh, do as you will, it's no business of mine

Will you make sure that Mr Pip gets

the money he requires. Thank you, Wemmick?

Excuse me.

Ah Good day to you, sir

Please come into my office.

So good to see you again.

(STRADELLA QUADRILLE PLAYING)

(CROWD CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)

Finches, Finches,

I would like to raise a glass

to a lady of my acquaintance.

ALL:
Ooh!

A lady of Richmond.

A peerless beauty.

Miss Estella Havisham!

- FINCHES:
Miss Estella Havisham!

- I know that lady.

Do you?

Oh, Lord!

And you know nothing of her!

Well, on the contrary,

I've had the pleasure of dancing with her.

- Several times

- You lie!

Steady now, Handel

Indeed.

Then perhaps you might care

to follow me.

(FINCHES CHATTER EXCITEDLY)

(MUSIC CONTINUES)

MAN 1:
Out of my way!

MAN 2:
Out of my way!

MAN 3:
Out of my way!

- (MUSIC STOPS)

- (AUDIENCE APPLAUDS)

MAN:
Step away from the lady, sir

Awaltz!

(WALTZ mUSIC PLAYS)

- The dance is not yet over.

- Remove your hand, sir.

Oh, hard luck Come on

ESTELLA:
Pip

Pip, will you nevertake warning?

- How can you do it, Estella?

- What?

Give youraffections tothat man

All sorts of ugly creatures

hoverabout a lighted candle.

- Can the candle help it?

- No, but you can.

Perhaps. If I cared.

But you must care!

To encourage a man as despised,

as unworthy and boorish

as Bentley Drummle.

And this is a man who has nothing

to recommend him except money...

Pip, don't let it affect you so.

I can't help it!

To give that man the looks and smiles

you nevergive to me...

Do you want me to deceive you?

- Do you deceive him?

- Yes!

Yes, him and many, many other men.

All men.

All men but you.

And why am I to be spared?

Why do you think?

JAGGERS:
Lovely evening, isn't it?

A storm later, so they say.

Estella, Mr Drummle

requires your presence.

Urgently.

(THUNDER RUmBLING)

(FIRE CRACKLING)

(CLOCK CHIMES)

PIP:
Hello?

- (DISTANT BANG)

- Herbert?

You're back early!

Who's there?

(GASPS) Who are you?

Wait, wait, wait Shh Wait

How'd you get in here?

Good God.

What are you...

You acted noble, my boy.

Noble, and I have neverforgot it.

Look, if you're grateful to me

for what I did as a boy,

it's not necessary.

- Really. You must understand.

- What must I understand?

That I cannot renew our acquaintance.

My life has changed since then.

Now, I'm glad that you're well

and you've repented

But really, you must go.

Please.

How about a drink first?

Before I go.

How have you been living?

A sheep farmer,

stock breeder, in the New World

Many a thousand mile off.

- You've done well?

- I've done wonderful well.

Seems, you've done well, too

Yes.

Yes. No, I have. Thank you.

I would like, if I may,

to give you this gift.

A token. Forold times.

Before you go.

(WHISPERS) There's yourgift

Might a varmint make so bold

as to ask you, how you've done well...

Since we were on them marshes?

Mmm?

I've come into some property.

And might he ask whose property?

No, I cannot say her name.

There are conditions.

CONVICT:
Conditions?

Could I make a guess as to your income?

Might the first figure be a...

Afive?

- How could you...

- And you would have had a guardian?

A lawyer, maybe,

with a name beginning with a...

A J?

AJ, perhaps, who might have sent me

your address when I landed in Portsmouth?

MrJaggers, perhaps?

Yes, dear boy. Yes.

I've made a gentleman of you.

I swore that time

as sure as I everearned a guinea,

that guinea should go to you.

No...

I lived rough that you should live smooth.

I worked hard that you should be above work.

I made you!

I'm your, your father, Pip.

No. No, no, no. You are not my father!

No, no

Your second father, then

You're my son. No...

No, you're more to me than any son.

Look at you, dear boy!

(CRYING)

Look at these lodgings.

They're fit fora lord.

And yeah, this watch and this ring

and your linen and your clothes.

And your, your books, too.

Oh!

You read them all, have you?

You shall read them to me...

And I shall be so proud, to think that

I'm the makerof such a man.

I must sleep, long and sound.

It's a long time since I slept.

You'll keep watch, dear boy?

Cos, look here Here

Caution is necessary

I was sent for life.

It's death to come back.

I should be hanged if took.

You risked your life to come to me?

That's right, dear boy.

(STAMmERS) I

I don't even know your name.

Magwitch.

Abel Magwitch.

PIP:
Well, is it true?

JAGGERS:
Do not commit yourself.

Do not tell me anything, I do not want...

- Is what I've been told true?

- "Told" implies verbal communication.

You cannot have verbal communication

with a man in New South Waes.

- I was always led to believe...

- Nothing.

Nothing.

You believed what you chose to believe.

Mmm-hmm?

It's not my responsibility.

Now, I understand you have

an uncle staying with you.

Yes? Yes?

- Yes.

- Right.

May I, suggest you buy him

some new clothes,

advise him to spend most of his time

in your rooms

and perhaps have a haircut.

Yes?

Meanwhile, if you are writing to

yourfriend in New South Wales,

you may choose to send him that.

The balance of our accounts.

Mmm-hmm?

My services are ended.

Good day, Mr Pip

All that time, in Satis House, I was just a

A mechanical heart to practise on.

Estella was never meant for me at all.

And you, my "guardian",

have known this all along.

(WEMMICK CLEARS HIS THROAT)

JAGGERS:
Well...

You may as well hearthis from me

as anyone else.

Um...

The Spider has played his hand

DRUMMLE:
Can I help you?

- Open this gate, Drummle, or I swear

- Why, it's the smithy's boy!

Don't lose yourtemper, smithy's boy.

Seems to me

you've lost quite enough already.

Pip?

- Pip.

- Oh, enough!

What I have to say to Estella

I will say before you.

But, Miss Havisham

When you first took me from my home,

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