(Previous posts edited to correct for Magwitch's actual name.) Heeding Wemmick's warning, Pip spends a mostly sleepless night in a borrowed bed. In the morning he goes to visit Wemmick at his Walworth home. While there he learns of Compeyson's (the scoundrel) looking for Magwitch. Magwitch has been removed to a new place for safety. Wemmick has advised laying low in London for the time being, as it being a large city, is a better place to disappear in for now. Magwitch/Provis/Mr. Campbell is now with Clara, her gouty father (Mr. Barley) and a Mrs. Wimple. Clara is lovely and charming and Pip is happy for her and Herbert's engagement. A plan is devised. Pip should buy a boat and practice rowing on the Thames, when no one suspects anything strange in this, and when Wemmick gives a signal, Pip and Herbert will remove Magwitch from London by boat. This is begun. (Pip develops protective sentiments for Magwitch.)
One foggy night in February, walking home from the river, Pip goes to the theatre and encounters Mr. Wopsles. Wopsles tell him of recognizing the younger-looking prisoner from the marshes long ago, sitting behind Pip in the theatre, like a ghost. Compeyson was there, following him, and Pip didn't know it. Later that night, Herbert and Pip resolve to be even more careful, and to communicate this urgent info to Wemmick via post. Later that week, Pip, again wandering home from the river, is accosted by Jaggers and convinced to dine with him. They go to Jaggers' place, along with Wemmick, and Pip learns 1) Estella has married Drummles; 2) Havisham wishes for Pip to visit, presumably to discuss the support of Herbert; and 3) Jagger's maid Molly, is Estella's mother.
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