Pip, now in his home town visiting Joe and Biddy, sent me a letter concerning more on Estella's parentage and background. After the fire at Miss Havisham's house. Herbert took Pip home and dressed his burns. While Pip was away, Herbert learned more about Provis and his background, which he told Pip when he woke up. He was married and had a child with a woman. He was cheating on his wife with another woman. This woman was found dead by means of throttling in a barn. The woman was tried and found not guilty (WOW, Molly is Provis's wife and Estella is his daughter). The night the wother woman was killed Provis's wife took their child, which was a girl, and told Provis that she would destroy the child so that he would never see it again. He never did see it again. Pip, thinking this story sounded extremely familiar, asked Herbert when this had happened. He replied that it had happened three or four years before Pip had met Provis in the churchyard, making the child about as old as him. Pip, very excited, then told Herbert what he had found out by combining everyone's stories together. That Provis was Estella's father!