Often after dark, when I was pulling the bellows for Joe, and we were singing Old Clem, and when the thought how we used to sing it at Miss Havisham’s would seem to show me Estella’s face in the fire, with her pretty hair fluttering in the wind and her eyes scorning me – often at such a time I would look towards those panels of black night in the wall which the wooden windows then were, and would fancy that I saw her just drawing her face away, and would believe that she had come at last.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 14. Pip has an unsettled mind and is tormented by images of Estella, while working as an apprentice at the forge. His time at Satis House with Estella and Miss Havisham has fundamentally changed and damaged him. Now ashamed of his lower class ways, he senses Estella’s disapproving gaze as he carries out dirty, manual labor at the forge. While working there with Joe at night, he imagines that he can see Estella’s beautiful but scornful face in the fire. At this stage Pip is hopelessly in love with Estella.