“It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practice on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. But I think she did not. I think that, in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.”
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 44. In this scene Pip appears at the point of verbally attacking Miss Havisham for leading him on in his belief that she was his patron and he was destined to marry Estella. But instead he shows understanding and forgiveness towards Miss Havisham.