Pip and Estella – 'bent, broken but better': Chapter 59

Pip and Estella are reunited

Years later, Pip returns to the village. Drummle – who beat Estella – has died in a riding accident. In his original ending, Dickens had Pip and Estella meet and go their separate ways. On the advice of friends, he changed it. In the revised ending, Pip and Estella meet in the grounds of Satis House. Both have been "bent and broken into a better shape" by disappointment. They leave together, and Pip closes the story by saying: "I saw no shadow of another parting from her."