Chapter X: Pip finds a new interest in his education and decides to take extra lessons from Biddy. On his way back from his schooling Mrs. Joe tells him to collect Joe from the Three Jolly Bargemen, and so there he “directed his steps”. Pip finds Joe smoking his pipe and drinking with Mr. Wopsle and a stranger, who remains unknown by name to the reader but known by the characters. Pip sits with them for a while and at one point sees the “stranger” stiring hid drink with the file that Pip had stolen from Joes workshop to give to the convict. This “stranger” then gives Pip a shilling wrapped in a crumpled piece of paper. Once Pip and Joe have returned home they find that this paper is actually a two pound note. Joe then took the note with him back to the Three Jolly Bargemen, to return this note to its owner, however the “stranger” was no longer there.

Chapter XI: after meeting the “stranger”, Pip returned to Miss Havisham’s, where he is somewhat insulted by family members of Havisham’s on her birthday. later on Pip is taken though the house by the stairs and Estella and she askes him is he thinks she is pretty, he replies “Yes; I think you are very pretty.”. Estella asks him more question until she becomes “fired” and slaps Pip. she then asked him, “Why sont you cry again, you little wretch?” Pip then answers “Because I’ll never cry for you again,” the two of them then walk up the stairs and Pip encounters a “large, dark man” who criticizes him. Shortly afterwards they arrive in the garden where Pip is forced to fight another boy; Pip knocks this boy down many times and  then effectively wins the “fight”. Pip then meets with Estella again and she allows him to kiss her on the cheak