I went through the dark passages to Miss Havisham‘s room.Everything was the same there. Nothing had changed. Miss Havisnam sat in her usual chair. Beside her, a very fine lady was sitting. I did not know her at first. Then I saw that it was Estella. She had grown more beautiful than ever. She gave me her hand. I could not speak!
“Well, is she much changed, Pip?” Miss Havisham asked me.“I thought so at first. But now I see that she is the same.”“The same proud and cruel Estella? The Estella who made you want to go home?”
“That was long ago,” I said.
“Is he changed?” Miss Havisham asked Estella.
“Very much.”
“Less rough and common?” asked Miss Havisham.
Estella laughed.
I learned that Estella had just come back from France.
She was going to live inLondon. Miss Havisham asked me to stay with them for therest of the day.
Estella and I went for awalk in the garden. There Estella remembered my fight with Herbert Pocket.
“Herbert and I are good friends now,” I told her.
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