Your guardian was not at that time in Miss Havisham's counsels, and she was too haughty and too much in love to be advised by any one.

Her relations were poor and scheming, with the exception of my father; he was poor enough, but not time-serving or jealous.

The only independent one among them, he warned her that she was doing too much for this man, and was placing herself too unreservedly in his power.

She took the first opportunity of angrily ordering my father out of the house, in his presence, and my father has never seen her since." I thought of her having said, "Matthew will come and see me at last when I am laid dead upon that table;" and I asked Herbert whether his father was so inveterate against her?
"It's not that," said he, "but she charged him, in the presence of her intended husband, with being disappointed in the hope of fawning upon her for his own advancement, and, if he were to go to her now, it would look true--even to him--and even to her.

To return to the man and make an end of him.