"Great Expectations"
by Charles Dickens

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     I said confusedly that that was long ago, and that I knew no better then, and the like. Estella smiled with perfect composure, and said she had no doubt of my having been quite right, and of her having been very disagreeable.

     "Is he changed?" Miss Havisham asked her.

     "Very much," said Estella, looking at me.

     "Less coarse and common?" said Miss Havisham, playing with Estella's hair.

 

     Estella laughed, and looked at the shoe in her hand, and laughed again, and looked at me, and put the shoe down. She treated me as a boy still, but she lured me on.

 
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