The correct answer why Miss Havisham wants Pip to visit
her at 'Satis House' is found in
Ch.7.
Mrs.Joe
Gargery, Pip's sister tells her husband Joe,
`She [Miss Havisham]
wants this boy [Pip] to go and play there [Satis House]. And of course he's going. And
he had better play there.'
When
Joe asks her how Miss Havisham came to know of Pip, she replies that Pumblechook who was
a tenant of Miss Havisham recommended Pip's name to Miss Havisham when she asked him if
he knew of some boy who could amuse her by coming to Satis House and play
there:
Isn't
it just barely possible that Uncle Pumblechook may be a tenant of hers, and that he may
sometimes -- we won't say quarterly or half-yearly, for that would be requiring too much
of you -- but sometimes -- go there to pay his rent? And
couldn't she then ask Uncle Pumblechook if he knew of a boy to go and play there?
And couldn't Uncle Pumblechook, being always considerate and
thoughtful for us -- though you may not think it, Joseph,' in a tone of the deepest
reproach, as if he were the most callous of nephews, `then mention this boy, standing
Prancing here' -- which I solemnly declare I was not doing -- `that I have for ever been
a willing slave to?'
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