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Went to a performance showcase earlier tonight, got a lot of reading done on the bus, but ended up walking a couple of miles to the venue, in silly heels no less, because the bus was taking forever and the woman sitting next to me on the bus said the term "wi-fi" about 20 times in a row into her phone and I thought I was going to lose my mind. Made it in time. It was amazing.

Okay. Pip goes to visit Havisham, who gives him a note for 900 pounds to give to Jaggers so that Pip can secure a partnership for Herbert. Then, as something softened in her during the previous visit when she saw Pip's pain in regards to Estella, she prostrates herself in front of him and begs forgiveness. She also asks if he would like anything for himself, he declines. He takes a walk through the grounds, full of memories of Estella and also when he fought Herbert. He gasps when he thinks he sees the specter of Havisham in the rafters again (as he also did when he was a boy.) When he is about to leave the grounds, he has a premonition to go check up on her. He looks into the room, she is very close to the fire, as he turns to leave, she comes running, flames billowing off her old wedding dress. He tackles her and throws his two heavy coats and the old tablecloth upon her to put out the flames, and holds her until help arrives, and then until the surgeon arrives. A bed is set up for her on the table where the wedding cake sat for years, the insects having scurried away when Pip pulled off the cloth. The burning remnants of the dress, settling down through the air. Pip is also badly burned on his arms, but he didn't realize it until later. He kisses her and forgives her in the morning. (Also, he had earlier secured the knowledge that Jagger's servant was indeed Estella's mother, and also how she came to be adopted by Havisham.)

He leaves early back to London and is nursed by Herbert. Provis remains safely hidden, but with the burns, Pip will not be able to row the boat out of London. Another plan must be devised. Herbert tells Pip a story about Provis, how he had had a child with a woman, and the woman had murdered another woman out of jealousy. Provis is Estella's father, only Herbert and Pip know this.  Pip goes to visit Jaggers and Wemmick in Little Britain. He gets the money for Herbert. Then questions Jaggers regarding Estella, and makes it known that Provis is the father. Jaggers advises not telling any of the parties concerned, the truth.

At home again, Pip receives a mysterious note asking him to meet the writer at the sluice-house. It is in regards to Provis. Someone else knows he is here. Pip goes. I haven't finished the chapter yet, I started to get sleepy on the bus. Saw Orlick's name later on the page. Certainly, more trouble brewing, and less than 70 pages until the end (which was rewritten by Dickens, he originally had things a different outcome altogether.)