Recall the figure of Jaggers the lawyer from Dickens' Great Expectations. Jaggers saved Molly, his housekeeper, from the gallows and installed her in his house, where she seemed entirely in thrall to him. Pip, Herbert, and Bentley Drummle (the lout who marries, then widows, Estella) witness Jaggers' strange relationship with Molly at dinner in Jaggers'... Continue Reading →