Chapter XXI: Wemmick introduces Pip to Herbert Pocket. Herbert and Pip immediately decide their liking towards one another. Herbert is described in a way making him seem very enthusiastic, Pip feels that the two are in fact extremely different in their personalities, where Herbert is quite an extrovert, Pip is easily described as an introvert,we also learn that Herbert is an impoverished gentleman who hopes to become a shipping merchant in the future whereas Pips future is set out for him by the money he receives by his mysterious benefactor . They soon realize, that they have met before, Herbert turns out to be the pale young boy that Pip fought in the garden at Satis House when he was younger.

Chapter XXII: Pip asks Herbert to help him learn to be a gentleman and Herbert agrees, Herbert subtly corrects Pip’s poor table manners, then the two decide to live together. eventually Herbert gives Pip the nickname “Handel,” and tells him the whole story of Miss Havisham, and how and as young girl, her family fortune was misused by her half brother, she fell in love with a man of lower class than her own and agrees to marry him. However she was played by him and her half brother, then on their wedding day the man didn’t appeared instead she was sent a note which she received at twenty minutes to nine same the time she later stopped all her clocks. At some later point, Miss Havisham adopted Estella, but Herbert does not know when or where.