I was rather on the lookout for good fortune then." "Indeed ?" "Yes.

Miss Havisham had sent for me, to see if she could take a fancy to me.

But she couldn't,--at all events, she didn't." I thought it polite to remark that I was surprised to hear that.
"Bad taste," said Herbert, laughing, "but a fact.

Yes, she had sent for me on a trial visit, and if I had come out of it successfully, I suppose I should have been provided for; perhaps I should have been what-you-may-called it to Estella." "What's that ?" I asked, with sudden gravity.
He was arranging his fruit in plates while we talked, which divided his attention, and was the cause of his having made this lapse of a word.
"Affianced," he explained, still busy with the fruit.

"Betrothed.
Engaged.