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told her As she looked at it, and drew in her head again,

, "Wretches!" I would not have confessed to ers," said I, by way of putting it neatly on so more in the secrets of that dismal place

than any man in London"

"He is more in the secrets of every place, I think," said Estella, in a

low voice

"You have been accustomed to see him often, I suppose?"

"I have been accustomed to see him at uncertain intervals, ever since

I can remember But I know him no better now, than I did before I could

speak plainly What is your own experience of him? Do you advance with

him?"

"Once habituated to his distrustful manner," said I, "I have done very

well"

"Are you intimate?"

"I have dined with hi "that must be a curious place"

"It is a curious place"