Great Expectations, Chapter 48: Zusammenfassung

Was geschieht

1. Mr. Jaggers meets Pip in Cheapside and invites him to dinner, where Wemmick maintains his distant professional manner.
2. Miss Havisham’s note requests a visit about business, and Pip decides to go tomorrow after Wemmick’s indirect prompting.
3. Mr. Jaggers discusses whether Bentley Drummle dominates or submits in marriage, distressing Pip.
4. Molly’s movements, eyes, and hands make Pip certain that she is Estella’s mother.
5. Once outside, Wemmick becomes friendly and explains how Mr. Jaggers secures Molly’s acquittal in a murder case.
6. Wemmick describes an accusation that Molly kills her young daughter, then confirms that Molly enters Jaggers’s service immediately after acquittal.

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The sentence marks Pip’s recognition of a possible family connection. His certainty comes from resemblance, not an admission by Molly or confirmation from Wemmick.

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