Great Expectations Page #5

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Never heard of him.

The office is one thing,

the private life another.

Now I will tell you what I have

for supper, Mr. Pip.

I have got...

a stewed steak and a cold

roast fowl from the cookshop.

The master of the shop is

a jury man of some cases there

and we let him down easy.

Do you often receive... gifts?

Oh, yes. I always take them.

Condemned men, jury men, Jagger's

clients. Their property, Pip.

They may not be worse much but

after all the're portable. And property.

I don't signify it to you with

your brilliant outlook but...

As to myself my guiding star always is:

get hold of portable property.

My cabinet of curiosities, Pip.

Of a felonious nature.

The very pen used in

the Attlee forgery case.

This raises from two celebrated

murder cases.

A lock of the victim's hair,

found on one of the villains.

And this letter here, look,

reporting to be the confession

of a condemned man.

But I know for a fact

it is all lies.

He never even did it.

Now, it is curiosity,

don't you think?

and Jaggers was involved

in all these cases?

I give it world of credit.

What allow to make him

and me so alike?

You don't mean you should.

It's not personal. It's professional.

Only professional.

But except this invitation to dinner,

you know it tomorrow.

And when you dine you'll see he harbours

a curiosity all of his very own.

Look at his housekeeper.

What shall I see?

A wild beast tamed.

Keep your eye on it.

Their poor home with abreast

to one another

and converse from boat to boat

like mates.

You cannot hear our conversations

because you are always too far behind us.

I choose to keep my distance

from you both.

I find I enjoy the river

far more that way.

So, you would consider yourself the master

in strength and skill of these two gentlemen?

That is not a consideration

that needs much thought.

And what say you two?

His superirity is purely in his imagination.

This superiority is here in the flesh.

- Look!

- Come, Mr. Pip,

unroll your sleeves

and put him to shame.

Pip would rather shame him

on the Thames, I think.

If you talk of strength...

I'll show you a wrist.

- Master...

- Molly, let them see your wrist.

Please...

Let them see them both.

Show them.

Come on.

There's power here.

Very few men have the power

of wrist this woman has.

It's remarkable what mere

force of grip is in these hands.

I have never seen stronger,

man or woman's...

than these.

That'll do, Molly.

It's half past nine,

gentlemen.

Time to break up.

Pip, stay a while.

Mr. Drummle, I drink to you.

Pardon me, sir, I understand

you're acquainted with Satis House.

Yes. With Miss Havisham.

Although I'd like to consider myself

more than merely acquainted.

Your two friends are set off back

to Hammersmith on either

side of the road.

I'm sorry if things

got disagreeable.

Nonsense.

I like the Drummle fellow there.

There are two sorts in life, Pip.

Beechers and cringers.

He's a beecher.

There's no doubt about that.

Excellent.

This arrived before.

What are the reasons

of her death, Joe?

Her state just got slowly worse,

see lay down on the bed.

And she spoke, Pip.

Actually spoke.

''Joe,'' she said,

and wants pardon

and wants Pip.

Pardon, Pip?

I suppose it will be difficult for you

to remain in the house now, Biddy.

Oh, I can't do so, Mr. Pip.

I'm going to Mrs Hubble tomorrow.

How are you going to live?

If you want any money...

I'll tell you how I'm

going to live, Mr. Pip.

I'm trying to get a place

of mistress

in the new school nearly

finished here.

You are one of those, Biddy,

who makes the best of every change.

You've proven in

every circumstances.

I'm not as handsomely

as you.

I'm not goint to leave

poor Joe alone.

- Don't you hear me, Biddy?

- Yes, Mr. Pip.

Not to mention your calling

me "Mr. Pip'',

which appears to me

in bad taste, Biddy.

What do you mean?

I made a remark respecting my

coming down here often to see Joe

which you have received

with the marked silence.

Have the goodness, Biddy,

to tell me why.

I trust you found the Blue Boar

where you come

to enjoy your stay.

It's so much more suitable

for your needs.

Goodbye, dear Joe.

You're not coming back

to the house?

No...Joe.

Miss Havisham knows I'm here.

She sent a letter to the...

Blue Boar.

She wishes to see me

and I must go there.

She extends her

sympathies, Joe.

I wonder what business

she has with you.

I wonder too.

I shall see you soon, Joe.

- Biddy.

- Goodbye, Pip.

Yes?

- How did you come here?

- On my legs.

As more changes than yours,

young master.

Come in. Come in.

It's opposed to my orders

to hold the gate open.

This is loaded.

I'm expected, I believe.

Yes.

Here I am.

Come in, Pip.

As if I were a queen.

I wished you to come to see me.

But who would you wish to see?

Call for her, Pip.

Who, Miss Havisham?

She's here. Call for her.

Estella.

Call for her.

Call!

Estella?

Estella?

Estella!

Do you admire her?

Then you must love her.

Love her.

Love her.

- I... sent for a carriage.

- To Richmond.

And I'm to give you my purse,

and you are to pay my charges out of it

that's settled too.

And what else is

settled for us?

This lady with whom

I'm going to live

at great expense has the power

of taking me about

and showing people to me

and me to people.

I suppose you would be glad

of variety and admiration.

I'm already glad of admiration, Pip.

What place is that?

I'm not sure... I think it's

Newgate prison.

- Are you familiar with it?

- As a building, not the wretches inside it.

And Orlick was removed

by Jaggers now.

Who?

- The porter of Satis House.

- Go on.

He wasn't the right man for

this post, you understand?

You arranged his removal?

How do you thrive

at Hammersmith?

Mr. Pocket is an admirable man.

Quite disinterested and

independent, I hear.

I like that class of men.

Do you remember the last spectacle

you and I attended together, Pip?

Rendition of "Old Clement",

I think at that time it was I

who was the vocalist.

Pip and I had a kind of growing up

together, didn't we Pip?

Why do you talk of me as if I were

your brother or something?

You notice that I call these

gentlemen by their title.

Mr. Drummle, there,

for example.

Only you do I call

by name, Pip.

Only you.

Thank you, sir.

It's generous 18.

Oh, if I may, sir.

There is number 3, 5 and 8.

- Now, this article...

- Let me save you the trouble. I will take all of them.

Apologies from Mrs Pocket

for not attendance.

She seems to have problem with

a baby in a pair of nutcrackers.

How is dear Miss Havisham,

Estella?

Still as dear.

And here's Matthew, never

coming near to see how she is.

Whilst others with no natural ties whatsoever

always seem to be mixing.

In fact, Sarah, I'm to write

to Miss Havisham regularly

to let her know how I feel.

She especially wishes to know

how Pip and I use each other.

She will be especially glad to know

that I'm dining here tonight.

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