Great Expectations Page #10

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- He barely breathes now.

- Then you may not go yet.

His daughter is a Lady, you know.

She is married to an heir but one

to a baronet.

I know her very well.

He did not know her at all.

- Are you real?

- Well, we come from the door.

- What do you want? I don't know you.

- Well, sir.

This is a matter you'll soon arrange

on doing, sir. You're arrested.

- What is the debt?

- L123,156.

A tailor's account, I think.

- What is to be done?

- You better come to my house.

I keep a very nice house.

Let see your face.

Up.

This is where I've got to, Joe.

The news reported me

before the letter.

I said to Biddy that you might be...

amongst strangers.

They are not so strange, Joe.

The police words were:

"go to him without manage

a loss of time"

Your receipt.

The debt of the costs.

You paid them all.

I have saved, Pip.

And it was better spared

on you than anyone.

Start to wipe your slates,

please, everybody.

That's it. I know you've

just done that.

That's all for today.

Thank you very much. You may now leave.

Quietly on the way out.

See you tomorrow.

I have tried to talk to Joe

about my true benefactor.

- He tells me not to pass...

- Unnecessary subjects.

I thought it might be you

who advised him.

I considered it might be

painful to you.

Always such tact.

And sweet kindness.

What should you do now?

Try some different occupation hereabouts.

- Or go to Cairo.

- Such a distant place.

- An opportunity awaits for me there.

- But you cannot decide?

It all rests with you, Biddy.

Until I know your answer.

I think you wants like me very well.

And even when my heart

strayed away from you,

it was quieter and better with you

than it has ever been since.

Pip.

And if you could like me only

half as well once more,

if you could take me with all

the disappointments on my head,

I should hope I am a little worthier

of you now than I was.

So please, Biddy.

Tell me if you will go

through the world with me.

Make it a better world for me as I would

try to make it a better world for you.

Joe. They shall be very well.

While I advised him not to speak

of some subjects to you

I hoped he would speak to you of this one.

Our wedding day.

Biddy has agreed to marry me.

Astonishing, eh?

It's to be a simple ceremony.

Joe had been saving for it but there were

more urgent expenses to be attended to.

You shall make each other as happy

as you deserve to be.

You are the best people

in the world.

Now, then...

I'm Pip. Come to play.

What do you want?

To look around the place and then

perhaps raze it to the ground.

Save it exactly the trouble

of pulling it down.

This house is lived in.

Miss Havisham left

the house to me.

And thus I'm now separated

from Mr Drummle...

- You came home.

- There.

That's done.

A letter to Mr. Jaggers

in the matter of my separation.

- He advises you?

- There is the benefit of continuity.

You wish continuity?

You see, I have made many changes

in the way of decoration, Pip.

You know I must look for

a trade now.

I have heard it.

I have no idea how I shall

go on in the world.

And you, Estella?

- Oh, I shall do well enough.

- Alone?

Here?

Still mindful of her lessons?

Or is the greater difference

between your face

that you received and

maintenent payments

for the man who used you

so cruelly?

And shall the Pockets visit you

on your birthday?

And shall a boy from the village be sent

to entertain you and

divert you from your solitude?

Tell me you are as happy

as I had been, Estella.

Tell me that Drummle made you suffer

and you are suffering still.

Tell me.

Now you know what

my heart has been.

No... No.

We cannot do this.

No.

I should go.

Go where?

Do we have to part again

simply because we cannot...

act on our love for each other?

Do we have to be deprived

of our company too?

Now, is there a knave or a jack?

For I wish not to be laughed at.

Call it what you will.

Oh, I shall.

When you visit me next

you should send word

if you intend to come.

Otherwise I may be out.

Or simply too busy.

It's impossible to say

when I shall next be here.

I have to work for a living.

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