Editing Great Expectations (section)

===Third stage===
A shocked Pip stops taking Magwitch's money, but devises a plan with Herbert to help him escape from England.<ref>{{harvnb|Paul Davis|2007|pages=130–131}}, Chapters 39–41</ref> Magwitch shares his past with Pip, and reveals that the escaped convict whom he fought in the churchyard was [[Compeyson]], the fraudster who had deserted Miss Havisham.<ref>{{harvnb|Paul Davis|2007|page=131}}, Chapter 42</ref>
 
Pip returns to Satis House to visit Estella and meets Drummle, who has also come to see her and now has Orlick as his servant. Pip confronts Miss Havisham for misleading him about his benefactor, but she says she did it to annoy her relatives. Pip declares his love to Estella, who coldly tells him she plans to marry Drummle. A heartbroken Pip returns to London, where Wemmick warns him that Compeyson is looking for him.<ref>{{harvnb|Paul Davis|2007|pages=131–132}}, Chapters 43–47</ref>

At Jaggers's house at dinner, Wemmick tells Pip how Jaggers acquired his maidservant, Molly, rescuing her from the gallows when she was accused of murder.<ref>{{harvnb|Paul Davis|2007|pages=131–132}}, Chapter 48</ref> A remorseful Miss Havisham tells Pip how she raised Estella to be unfeeling and heartless ever since Jaggers brought her in as an infant with no information on her parentage. She also tells Pip that Estella is now married. She gives Pip money to pay for Herbert's position at Clarriker's and asks for his forgiveness. As Pip is about to leave, Miss Havisham's dress catches fire, and Pip injures himself in an unsuccessful attempt to save her. Realising that Estella is the daughter of Molly and Magwitch, Pip is discouraged by Jaggers from acting on his suspicions.<ref>{{harvnb|Paul Davis|2007|pages=132}}, Chapters 49–51</ref>

[[File:Pip-magwitch.jpeg|thumb|right|Magwitch makes himself known to Pip]]
A few days before Magwitch's planned escape, Pip is tricked by an anonymous letter into going to a sluice-house near his old home, where he is seized by Orlick, who intends to murder him and freely admits to injuring Pip's sister. As Pip is about to be struck with a hammer, Herbert and Startop arrive and save him. The three pick up Magwitch to row him to the steamboat for Hamburg, but they are met by a police boat carrying Compeyson, who has offered to identify Magwitch. Magwitch seizes Compeyson, and they fight in the river. Seriously injured, Magwitch is taken by the police. Compeyson's body is found later.<ref>{{harvnb|Paul Davis|2007|page=132}}, Chapters 52–54</ref>

Aware that Magwitch's fortune will go to the Crown after his trial, Pip visits a dying Magwitch in the prison hospital and tells him that his daughter Estella is alive. Herbert, who is preparing to move to [[Cairo]], Egypt, to manage Clarriker's office, offers Pip a position there. After Herbert's departure, Pip falls ill in his room and faces arrest for debt. However, Joe nurses Pip back to health and pays off the debt. After recovering, Pip then returns to propose to Biddy, only to find that she has married Joe. Pip apologises to Joe, vows to repay him, and leaves for Cairo. There, he moves in with Herbert and Clara, eventually advancing to become third in the company. Only then does Herbert learn that Pip paid for his position in the firm.<ref>{{harvnb|Paul Davis|2007|pages=132–133}}, Chapters 55–58</ref>

After working for eleven years in Egypt, Pip returns to England and visits Joe, Biddy, and their son, Pip Jr. Then, in the ruins of Satis House, he meets the widowed Estella, who asks Pip to forgive her, assuring him that her misfortune and her abusive marriage to Drummle until his death have opened her heart. As Pip takes Estella's hand, and they leave the moonlit ruins, he sees "no shadow of another parting from her".<ref>{{harvnb|Paul Davis|2007|page=133}}, Chapter 59</ref>