Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Chapter 57 Page 30

I, for my part, was thoughtful too; for, how best to check this growing change in Joe was a great perplexity to my remorseful thoughts.

That I was ashamed to tell him exactly how I was placed, and what I had come down to, I do not seek to conceal; but I hope my reluctance was not quite an unworthy one. He would want to help me out of his little savings, I knew, and I knew that he ought not to help me, and that I must not suffer him to do it.

It was a thoughtful evening with both of us. But, before we went to bed, I had resolved that I would wait over to-morrow, — to-morrow being Sunday, — and would begin my new course with the new week.

On Monday morning I would speak to Joe about this change, I would lay aside this last vestige of