Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Chapter 38 Page 6

“That's true,” said Estella, with a cold careless smile that always chilled me.

After looking at the twilight without, for a little while, she went on to say: —

“The time has come round when Miss Havisham wishes to have me for a day at Satis. You are to take me there, and bring me back, if you will. She would rather I did not travel alone, and objects to receiving my maid, for she has a sensitive horror of being talked of by such people. Can you take me?”

“Can I take you, Estella!”

“You can then? The day after to-morrow, if you please.

You are to pay all charges out of my purse, You hear the condition of your going?”