Everything happens

So, because the time is close to when they need to get Provis out of London, Pip leaves immediately for the marshes. He leaves a note for Herbert saying that he is going to visit Havisham. He catches the afternoon coach, stays at an "inn of minor reputation." Havisham is doing a little better. He hears at the inn that Pumblechook has taken credit for his fortunes. Pip realizes how good Joe has been to him and he is humbled. At nine he heads out into the marsh. The moon is out, so he can see. When he arrives at the sluice house, he knocks, no one answers. He pushes the door open, sees no one. There is a candle lit, but no person. Suddenly, the candle is extinguised and Pip is caught and bound up, tied to the wall. The man is Orlick, angry at Pip for ruining both his chances with Biddy and with his job at Havisham's. We find out over the course of this encounter that it was he that tried to kill Mrs. Joe. He intends to kill Pip. Before he can though, miraculously, Pip is rescued. It is Herbert, Startop (I can't remember who that is, but it's a friend of Pip's and Herbert's and he will row the boat with Provis in it later, since Pip's arm is injured from the fire and the binding from Orlick) and Trabb's boy. Pip had dropped  the letter, Herbert had found it and followed him out to Havisham's with Startop. They cannot find him, but run into Trabb's boy, who has seen him, and somehow make their way to the sluice house. Orlick escapes into the night. The rest return home.

Two days later, they row down to meet Provis and get him in the boat. They find a place to stay the night, but it seems they are being followed. The following day, as the time draws near to catch a steamer ship, they are intercepted by Compeyson and the galley. In a blur of events, the steamer ship cannot stop, their boat goes under, Startop, Herbert and Pip are pulled aboard the galley, but Compeyson and Magwitch go under, locked onto one another. Magwitch is recovered, gravely injured, but alive and taken into custody. Compeyson is not, his body is found later. Pip's heart is softened, so that all he wants is to ease the suffering of Magwitch, to save him if he could.

Jaggers tries to postpone the trial to the next session, but is denied. Magwitch is close to death. On the day he is found guilty, 32 people are also sentenced to death. Wemmick marries Miss Sifkins, Herbert leaves for Cairo, but not before telling Pip he wants to offer him a clerk job, and to live with he and Clara, once they are married. Pip's mind is mostly concerned with Magwitch's fate and says he will let him know. They part company. I'm somewhere in the middle of the chapter where Magwitch is found guilty. More to follow. Less than 30 pages to go.