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1What purpose I had in view when I was hot on tracing out and proving Estella's parentage, I cannot say. It will
2presently be seen that the question was not before me in a distinct shape until it was put before me by a wiser head
3than my own. But when Herbert and I had held our momentous conversation, I was seized with a feverish conviction that I
4ought to hunt the matter down,--that I ought not to let it rest, but that I ought to see Mr. Jaggers, and come at the
5bare truth. I really do not know whether I felt that I did this for Estella's sake, or whether I was glad to transfer to
6the man in whose preservation I was so much concerned some rays of the romantic interest that had so long surrounded me.
7Perhaps the latter possibility may be the nearer to the truth. Any way, I could scarcely be withheld from going out to
8Gerrard Street that night. Herbert's representations that, if I did, I should probably be laid up and stricken useless,
9when our fugitive's safety would depend upon me, alone restrained my impatience. On the understanding, again and again
10reiterated, that, come what would, I was to go to Mr. Jaggers to-morrow, I at length submitted to keep quiet, and to
11have my hurts looked after, and to stay at home. Early next morning we went out together, and at the corner of Giltspur
12Street by Smithfield, I left Herbert to go his way into the City, and took my way to Little Britain. There were
13periodical occasions when Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick went over the office accounts, and checked off the vouchers, and put
14all things straight. On these occasions, Wemmick took his books and papers into Mr. Jaggers's room, and one of the
15upstairs clerks came down into the outer office. Finding such clerk on Wemmick's post that morning, I knew what was
16going on; but I was not sorry to have Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick together, as Wemmick would then hear for himself that I
17said nothing to compromise him. My appearance, with my arm bandaged and my coat loose over my shoulders, favoured my
18object. Although I had sent Mr. Jaggers a brief account of the accident as soon as I had arrived in town, yet I had to
19give him all the details now; and the speciality of the occasion caused our talk to be less dry and hard, and less
20strictly regulated by the rules of evidence, than it had been before. While I described the disaster, Mr. Jaggers stood,
21according to his wont, before the fire. Wemmick leaned back in his chair, staring at me, with his hands in the pockets
22of his trousers, and his pen put horizontally into the post. The two brutal casts, always inseparable in my mind from
23the official proceedings, seemed to be congestively considering whether they didn't smell fire at the present moment. My
24narrative finished, and their questions exhausted, I then produced Miss Havisham's authority to receive the nine hundred
25pounds for Herbert. Mr. Jaggers's eyes retired a little deeper into his head when I handed him the tablets, but he
26presently handed them over to Wemmick, with instructions to draw the check for his signature. While that was in course
27of being done, I looked on at Wemmick as he wrote, and Mr. Jaggers, poising and swaying himself on his well-polished
28boots, looked on at me. "I am sorry, Pip," said he, as I put the check in my pocket, when he had signed it, "that we do
29nothing for you." "Miss Havisham was good enough to ask me," I returned, "whether she could do nothing for me, and I
30told her No." "Everybody should know his own business," said Mr. Jaggers. And I saw Wemmick's lips form the words
31"portable property." "I should not have told her No, if I had been you," said Mr Jaggers; "but every man ought to know
32his own business best." "Every man's business," said Wemmick, rather reproachfully towards me, "is portable property."
33As I thought the time was now come for pursuing the theme I had at heart, I said, turning on Mr. Jaggers:-- "I did ask
34something of Miss Havisham, however, sir. I asked her to give me some information relative to her adopted daughter, and
35she gave me all she possessed." "Did she?" said Mr. Jaggers, bending forward to look at his boots and then straightening
36himself. "Hah! I don't think I should have done so, if I had been Miss Havisham. But she ought to know her own business
37best." "I know more of the history of Miss Havisham's adopted child than Miss Havisham herself does, sir. I know her
38mother." Mr. Jaggers looked at me inquiringly, and repeated "Mother?" "I have seen her mother within these three days."
39"Yes?" said Mr. Jaggers. "And so have you, sir. And you have seen her still more recently." "Yes?" said Mr. Jaggers.
40"Perhaps I know more of Estella's history than even you do," said I. "I know her father too." A certain stop that Mr.
41Jaggers came to in his manner--he was too self-possessed to change his manner, but he could not help its being brought
42to an indefinably attentive stop--assured me that he did not know who her father was. This I had strongly suspected from
43Provis's account (as Herbert had repeated it) of his having kept himself dark; which I pieced on to the fact that he
44himself was not Mr. Jaggers's client until some four years later, and when he could have no reason for claiming his
45identity. But, I could not be sure of this unconsciousness on Mr. Jaggers's part before, though I was quite sure of it
46now. "So! You know the young lady's father, Pip?" said Mr. Jaggers. "Yes," I replied, "and his name is Provis--from New
47South Wales." Even Mr. Jaggers started when I said those words. It was the slightest start that could escape a man, the
48most carefully repressed and the sooner checked, but he did start, though he made it a part of the action of taking out
49his pocket-handkerchief. How Wemmick received the announcement I am unable to say; for I was afraid to look at him just
50then, lest Mr. Jaggers's sharpness should detect that there had been some communication unknown to him between us. "And
51on what evidence, Pip," asked Mr. Jaggers, very coolly, as he paused with his handkerchief half way to his nose, "does
52Provis make this claim?" "He does not make it," said I, "and has never made it, and has no knowledge or belief that his
53daughter is in existence." For once, the powerful pocket-handkerchief failed. My reply was so unexpected, that Mr.
54Jaggers put the handkerchief back into his pocket without completing the usual performance, folded his arms, and looked
55with stern attention at me, though with an immovable face. Then I told him all I knew, and how I knew it; with the one
56reservation that I left him to infer that I knew from Miss Havisham what I in fact knew from Wemmick. I was very careful
57indeed as to that. Nor did I look towards Wemmick until I had finished all I had to tell, and had been for some time
58silently meeting Mr. Jaggers's look. When I did at last turn my eyes in Wemmick's direction, I found that he had
59unposted his pen, and was intent upon the table before him. "Hah!" said Mr. Jaggers at last, as he moved towards the
60papers on the table. "What item was it you were at, Wemmick, when Mr. Pip came in?"
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