Great Expectations Page #8

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from it during daylight.

Confine all movements

to the darkness.

Now it is my turn

to shun the daylight.

- I beg your pardon?

- It's nothing.

Go for foreign air, Mr. Pip,

but await the things slacken.

I hope he's not caught...

for your sake.

For if convicted, all his possessions

will be forfeited to the Crown and you...

- No longer a gentleman.

- There is the danger

unless you avail yourself of all

this portable property now.

Miss Skiffins has come to visit.

I hope he's not caught.

The fortunes of two people should be

bound together for the good.

Eh, Mr. Pip?

Why should I fly off like

a bird that took flight?

If the danger would be 50 times greater

I shall still have come to you.

But you know your capture

would mean death.

Death by the rope, you said.

I can disguise myself.

- Oh, Lord...

- All these things can be bought.

A powder... spectacles...

black clothes.

- It will not work.

- It will not work...

because you do not

want it to work.

- You just want me gone.

- I shall go with you.

And leave me somewhere.

I've been left before.

I've been tricked before.

You remember my enemy, Compeyson,

out on the marshes?

I stood alongside him

in the dock

I watched how the looked on me

and light on him because

he was a gentleman.

So you don't go telling me

you'll go along with me!

I am trying to help you.

I am in this with you.

Unluckily!

Compeyson was involved

with me.

Till he used lies to divide himself

from me. And left me guilty.

- I am not your fellow convict.

- No.

You're more to me

than any son.

I said that to you as someone...

who lost a child once.

And I should like you to think

of me as your second father.

Abel...

My chambers are being watched.

You have enemies in London.

- Who told you this?

- Wemmick. He knows.

- Is it Compeyson?

- I don't know.

But you must rely on

Wemmick's judgment.

And I must rely on

your good faith.

You know he is in great danger.

I cautioned him that presenting himself

in this country would be an act of felony.

And that he would be hanged?

That it would render him liable

to the extreme penalty of the law.

- Do you have any advice

to impart on the planning of his escape?

I wish to hear no more of that.

My chambers are being watched.

If he was caught...

I am not responsible for that.

What's your responsibility

towards your client?

You are after all his agent.

You will kindly inform him

there is still a balance outstanding.

So, Pip. Our friend

Drummle has played his cards.

Yes. Estella has now married him.

And was on honeymoon in Paris.

Molly, Molly, how slow

you are today.

So. Here is to Mrs. Bentley Drummle.

I'm... very sorry, master.

I'll go...

See to it afterwards. Go.

Well, let's try the toast again,

shall we?

Mr. Jaggers, I'm afraid I will have to

take my leave of you early.

Thank you for your hospitality.

Oh, what a man he is!

I find it's best to screw yourself up

when dining with him.

Now I'm very screwed up.

Wemmick, you remember you

called this housekeeper

a wild beast tamed...

- I did.

- How did Mr. Jaggers tamed her?

It's his business.

You ask me my Walworth capacity?

Of course.

Twenty or more years ago she was tried

at the Old Bailey for murder and acquitted.

Jaggers was for her.

- Who was murdered?

- Another woman. Strangled.

- You have seen those wrists.

- Jaggers made a spectacle of them.

The housekeeper who was married

over the broomstick

to a tramping man.

She was said a perfect fury

in point of jealousy,

so jealous she gave up

a young child

after acquittal to revenge herself

upon unfaithful husband.

- The child adopted by whom?

- I don't know of it, Mr. Pip.

Anyway, Jaggers was not

too many for the jury

raised a technicality

and they gave in.

- You know the sex of the child?

- Said it's been a girl.

I'm afraid Mrs Drummle does not wish

to receive visitors at this moment.

- But you told her my name?

- Yes, sir.

Is it real?

Do you feel the heat of this flame,

Miss Havisham? Then it is real.

Whose child was Estella?

You don't know or you

don't want to say?

I know her mother.

I know the story of her mother.

Her name is Molly and she is

Jaggers' housekeeper.

He brought the child of her

broken marriage here to you. Why?

I told him I wanted a little girl

to rear in love.

And he was charged

with arranging it.

And Jaggers saving her

from the life of what?

Punishment? Neglect?

Crime?

And for the want of nourishment?

No longer to be deprived and be devil?

So he brings her to a place more blighted

than she could never grown up naturally.

I meant to save her

from misery like my own.

But instead she was taught it.

I'm sorry.

- Look what I've done to you.

- An apology may be enough for me.

To compare to Estella,

I am easily recompensed.

Yes. Yes.

Mr. Jaggers informs me

that you are someone of

a benefactor to Herbert Pocket,

but are unable to complete

the services.

He freely told you my business?

I wished to know it.

Why?

How much is required to complete

the service?

900 pounds.

This is my imperative for you

to receive that money.

And to yourself...

Who I am for God's sake that

I should be kind?

Your words to me on the delusions

I have been harbouring all these years.

And now your own

have come to pass.

Do you know how Estella feels?

She's in Mayfair.

You are a stranger now,

but I have seen her lately.

And I can report to you that

she is used most cruelly

by Mr. Bentley Drummle.

That she breaks no men's hearts,

only her own.

That she reeks no revenge on men,

but is herself the subject

of her own husband's disrespect

and cowardice

as you were, Miss Havisham.

As you were.

No. It can't be true.

The lessons went wrong,

Miss Havisham.

She feels nothing as you wished.

Except she also feels nothing

for herself.

The creature you hoped to nurture

is gone and lost to you.

The woman who now so resembles you

is also lost to you.

You have nothing.

What... would you have me do?

Pip?

Pip?

Help me! Help me!

Estella!

What do you want?

I only want to ask after

Miss Havisham.

One of her servants gave it out

she was burned all over.

- She is lucky to survive.

- I heard you played your part anyways.

- You're in my way.

- And you are always in my way.

Ever since you was a child.

But you goes out of my way

this present day.

I know no more of you.

You're dead.

- What have I done to you?

- Everything.

You cost me my place in the house.

- I could let you stay there.

- You cost me my living.

- And now it would be enough, without more.

- What more?

You come between me

and the woman I liked.

- Biddy?

- You gave Orlick a bad name to her.

You gave it to yourself.

You did yourself harm.

No! How dare you?

At the forge it was Orlick

who was bullied

while you was favoured.

And when I complained then

I was paid off there.

And you went up town

to see your Miss Havisham.

Still, I came back.

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