Summary

Chapter 50. When Pip returns home, Herbert devotes a day to nurse Pip’s badly burned arm. Herbert tells Pip that he went to visit with Mr. Provis and he was more talkative this time. Mr. Provis told Herbert about a woman he loved during his time with Compeyson, a woman who was accused of killing another woman and told him that she had killed their three-year-old daughter. Pip listens to this story and realizes that Mr. Provis, aka Abel Magwitch, is Estella’s father.

Chapter 51. Pip goes to visit Mr. Jaggers the following day and finds him going over the accounts with Mr. Wemmick. Pip asks if Mr. Jaggers gave Molly’s baby to Miss Havisham. Mr. Jaggers admits to giving Miss Havisham a baby and then admits that he needed to get rid of Molly’s baby for her defense and also to save...