Summary: Chapter 9 When Pip returns home, he lies to Joe Mrs. Joe, and Pumblechook about his experience at Satis House, inventing a wild story in which Estella feeds him cake and four immense dogs fight over veal cutlet from a silver basket. He feels guilty for lying to Joe and tells him the truth in the smithy later that day. Joe, who is astonished to find out that Pip has lied, advises Pip to keep company with his own class for the present and tells him that he can succeed someday only if he takes an honest path. Pip resolves to remember Joe's words, but that night, as he lies in bed, he can't help but imagine how "common" Estella would find Joe, and he falls into a reverie about the grandeur of his hours at Satis House. Summary: Chapter 10 Pip continues to suffer through his schooling, but a new desire for education and social standing makes him agree to take extra lessons from his sensible friend Biddy. Later the same day, when Pip goes to the pub to bring Joe home, he sees a mysterious stranger stirring his drink with the same file Pip stole for the convict. The stranger gives Pip two pounds, which Pip later gives to Mrs. Joe. He continues to worry that his aid to the convict will be discovered. Analysis: Chapters 8-10 With the introduction of Miss Havisham and Estella, the themes of social class, ambition, and move to the forefront of the novel. Pip's hopes (encouraged by Mrs. Joe's and Pumblechook's suggestive comments) Havisham intends to raise h that Miss a into wealth and high social class are given special urgency by the passionate attraction he feels for Estella His feelings for the "very pretty and very proud" young lady, combined