Pip was telling me about the first time he laid eyes upon he and his partner's apartment. His partner ( and this was a big suprise to me) turned out to be the pale young gentleman that he had beat up all those years ago at Miss Havisham's house. The first thing that the gentleman (Herbert Pocket) did was to apologize for the way he knocked him around in the past ( yeah right, you couldn't hit a fly with a fly swatter if that fly was stuck to fly paper a foot from your body). Pip , being very polite, did not denounce this claim, but accepted it from his new "room mate". Hebert, being very jolly, took an immediate liking to Pip and even gave him the nickname Handel, after the composer who had written the song "Harmonious Blacksmith". Herbert could also relate very well to Pip because he had gone to Miss Havisham's house at a young age as well. Pip found out from Herbert during their dinner that Miss Havisham's goal in life now is to wreak havoc on the male sex (sketchy, ancient crone) because on her birth and wedding day she was left at the alter by her fiance. He sent her a letter informing her that he would not be there. She received it at twenty minutes to nine and, afterwards, stopped all the clocks at that time, symbolizing that her life had stopped and now had no meaning. Her instrument in wreaking this revenge is Estella, pretty little Estella, adopted solely for this purpose. Estella, who scorns all men and is constantly encouraged by Miss Havisham to break my comerade Pip's heart (evil, wicked, sick child). All while telling Pip this story, Herbert, being ever so kind, was teaching Pip proper gentleman table manners. Pip, now chock full with information, started off with Herbert to meet his (Pip's) tutor, Mathew Pocket.