Chapter 12 starts with Pip growing uneasy over his fight with the boy at Miss Haversham’s estate. Pip worry’s that he will be arrested, much like he thought when he aided the escaped convict at the beginning of the book. Pip then goes to Miss Havisham’s again and quickly checks the scene of the fight for any blood and then covers some up with some garden mold. Pip goes to meet Miss Haversham who asks him to push her around in her garden chair. Pip and Miss Haversham discuss a number of topics including what pip plans to do when he grows older to which he replies that he will become apprenticed to Joe as a blacksmith. Miss Haversham also teases pip over his attraction to Estella and then asks them to play cards together. Pip then grows apart from his family very slowly as he notices their flaws and general obnoxious behavior, mostly in Mr Pumblechook and Mrs Joe.
A large period of time passes, which is not specified and the story comes to another visit to Miss Haversham’s where she asks about Joe and his profession, who Pip is planned to be an apprentice to. She then tells Pip to bring Joe on his next visit to the her estate. Pip returns to tell Joe about the invite, which brings about a “rampage” on Mrs Joe’s part which sends Pip to bed and ends the chapter
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