English Conversation Handout 9
(Page Created -25 October 2001 - Last Updated - 25 October 2001)
Part 1: Pip goes back to visit
Miss Havisham at her home. Pip knocks on Miss Havisham’s door:
Miss Havisham: “Come in Pip. Heheheheeee, how do you do?”
Pip: “How do you do Miss Havisham?” Pip kisses Miss Havisham’s
hand.
Miss Havisham: “You kiss my hand as if I were a queen! Well, tell me
why?”
Pip: “I, I thought that you were so kind to wish to see me Miss Havisham.”
Miss Havisham: “Well, look who is here… Estella.” Pip is
extremely happy to see Estella:
Pip: “Estella!”
Miss Havisham: “Hehehehahugh.”
Estella: “Well Pip.”
Pip: “Ohhhh, Estella, this is an unexpected pleasure! I did not think
that I would meet you here!”
Miss Havisham: “You two must have a lot to say to each other. Go out
into the garden and walk and talk together.”
Part 2: Pip and Estella walk in the garden:
Estella: “I must have been a strange little girl to hide and watch you
fight that day. But I did, and I did enjoy watching you fight.”
Pip: “You rewarded me very much.”
Estella: “Did I?”
Pip: “Do you not remember?”
Estella: “I remember that I really did not like your opponent.”
Pip: “Heheheheee… Oh?”
Estella: “I really did not like that he was brought here to entertain
me.”
Pip; “He and I are very good friends now.”
Estella: “I imagine that since your change of fortune, that you have
also changed your friends.”
Pip: “Yes, indeed I have. Do you remember the first time I came here
and you made me cry?”
Estella: “Did I make you cry? I don’t remember.”
Pip: “You don’t remember that you made me cry?”
Estella: “You meant nothing to me, why should I remember? You must know
Pip, I have no heart. Perhaps that is why I do not remember making you cry.”
Pip: “No one looking at you could believe that you have no heart.”
Estella: “Oh, I have a heart in my body. But you know what I mean there
is no feeling in my heart. There is no softness, and no feeling for other
people. There is no love in my heart. If we are to meet many times you had
better understand that at once.”
Pip: “I cannot believe that about you, Estella.”
Estella: “Well, if that is what you want to think, but I have told you
the truth. Remember how I have been brought up. Do not expect too much of
me. Come Pip, you will not shed tears because of my cruelty today. We shall
walk once more round the garden and then go into the house. Miss Havisham
will expect you to walk her round her room, just like you did before.”
Part 3: Now, Pip is pushing Miss Havisham in her wheelchair in the
wedding banquet room:
Miss Havisham: “Is not Estella soooo very beautiful, even more beautiful
than she was before? Do you not admire her?”
Pip: “Every one must admire Estella, Miss Havisham.”
Miss Havisham: “She is going to London soon, and you will be able to
meet her there.”
Pip: “I will be the happiest man in London, Miss Havisham.” Mr
Jaggers, enters and stands at the door of the room:
Miss Havisham: “Love her… if she favours you, love her. If she tears
your heart to pieces… love her. I adopted her to be loved. I developed
her into…”
Mr. Jaggers: “Sniff, sniff.”
Miss Havisham: “Hugh… As punctual as ever Jaggers.”
Mr. Jaggers: “As punctual as ever. How do you do Pip, and what are you
doing here?”
Pip: “Miss, egh… Miss Havisham wished me to see Estella, Mr Jaggers.”
Mr. Jaggers: “Agh, Estella is a fine young lady… Shall I give you
a ride Miss Havisham, once round the room? Estella is a very fine young lady,
Pip?”
Part 4: Pip is now alone in his house, it is a cold, stormy night.
It is very late at night and Pip is sitting at the fire reading a book. Someone
rings the doorbell. Pip stand up and opens the door. Pip is surprised at the
man who is there:
Pip: “Who do you want?”
The Convict: “Are you Mr Pip?”
Pip: “I am Mr Pip, what is your business?”
The Convict: “My business… my business? Agh, yes I will, egh, I
will explain my business if you will allow me to… to come in.”
Pip: “Do you, egh… do you wish to come in?”
The Convict: “Agh… yes, I do wish to come in… master.”
The convict enters the house:
Pip: “Now perhaps you will explain why you have come here?”
The Convict: “This is disappointing to a man who has come so far, and
who has looked forward to seeing you. But… you are not to blame for my
disappointment.”
Pip: “What? What do you mean?”
The Convict: “I will speak in half a minute, give me half a minute please.”
(Outside, the wind blows and there is a noise.) “There is no one else
here is there?”
Pip: “Why do you ask that question?”
The Convict: “Ha ha ha ha ha, you are a spirited one, I am glad that
you have grown up a spirited one.”
Pip: “Now, I know who you are! The churchyard, the churchyard on the
marshes. You are the convict that I gave food to on the marshes.” The
convict kisses Pip’s hand, and shakes his hand strongly.
The Convict: “You acted bravely and honestly, my boy. You acted nobly…
noble Pip, and I have never forgotten that.”
Pip: “If you are grateful to me for what I did when I was a child, and
you have come to thank me for it, there is no need. Well now that you have
found where I live, will you drink something, before you go?”
The Convict: “Yes, thank you, I will drink something before I go….
Hagh hagh hagh hagh hagh hagh haaaa…”
Part 5: Pip pours out two drinks, and gives one to the convict:
Pip: “I am sorry if I spoke to you rudely just now. I did not intend
to speak to you rudely, and I apologise to you if I did. I hope that you are
living well and happy now…. How, emmm, how have you been living?”
The Convict: “I have been a sheep farmer, far away in New South Wales,
in Australia.”
Pip: “I hope that you have done well.”
The Convict: “I have done wonderfully well. I am famous for having done
wonderfully well.”
Pip: “I am very glad to hear it.”
The Convict: “I hoped to hear you say so, dear boy. But, hugh, you have
done well also, haven’t you?”
Pip: “Yes, I have done quite well.”
The Convict: “May I ask how you have done so well since you and I were
out on those cold, shivering marshes?"
Pip: “How have I done so well?”
The Convict: “How?”
Pip: “Yes, I was chosen to be given some property.”
The Convict: “May I ask what property?”
Pip: “Hugh… egh, I don’t know.”
The Convict: “May I ask whose property?”
Pip: “I do not know?”
The Convict: “Could I guess at what your income has been since you came
of age? Could I guess the first figure? Is it 5?”
Pip: “Huugh?” Pip is becoming worried.
The Convict: “As to your guardian. There should be a guardian for such
a situation, for when you were a child…. Some lawyer, maybe. As to the
first letter of that lawyer’s name now… would it be J?”
Pip: “Egh… pardon?”
The Convict: “I am the employer of that lawyer whose name begins with
J, and might be Jaggers.
Pip: “Cough…”
The Convict: “I wrote to a person in London for your address. That person’s
name? Why… that was Wemmick.”
Pip: “Really, truly?” Pip is shocked.
The Convict: “Yes, Pip dear boy, I made a gentleman of you. It was me
that made a gentleman of you. I swore that day on the marshes that as soon
as I earned a pound, that pound would go to you. That there hunted dog that
I was, that you kept alive by giving him food and drink, succeeded to become
so rich that he made a gentleman. Pip, that gentleman is you.”
Pip: “Is that true, really?”
The Convict: “Why, I am your second father Pip, and you are my son. Look
how good looking you have grown. Agghh there is a pair of bright eyes somewhere,
is there a pair of bright eyes that you love the thoughts of? Those eyes shall
be yours dear boy if money can buy those eyes. Did you never think that it
was me who made you a gentleman?”
Pip: (Pip breathes in deeply and breathes out again:) “No, never?”
The Convict: “Well, as you can see it was me, and single-handed. Not
another person was involved, except myself and Mr Jaggers.”
Pip: “Was there no one else?”
The Convict: “No, no one, who else should there be? Well, where are you
going to put me dear boy?”
Pip: “To put you?”
The Convict: “Agh, yes, for me to sleep.”
Pip: “Agh, yes… for you to sleep, mmmm.”
Part 6. They hear the sound of someone running up the stairs to
the house, the convict stands up, opens his knife:
The Convict: “Who is that?”
Pip: “Do not be alarmed, it is only Mr Pocket, he shares these rooms
with me.” Mr Pocket bursts in:
Mr Pocket: “Whew, what a terrible night! The weather is…” He
sees the convict the knife and he is shocked!
Mr Pocket: “Hello?” The convict walks to Herbert, pointing the
knife at him:
Pip: “Egh… Herbert, something, egh, something… very strange
has happened. This is a visitor of mine.”
The Convict: “Say, God strike me dead on the spot if I tell anyone about
me in anyway whatever.”
Mr Pocket: “God strike me dead on the spot if I tell anyone about you
in anyway whatever.”
The Convict: “Now kiss it, kiss the Bible!” He hands a small
Bible to Herbert:
Pip: “Please, do as he says Herbert.” Herbert takes and kisses
the bible.
The Convict: “Now, shake hands on your oath.” The convict offers
Mr Pocket his hand, and they shake hands.