I invited Miss Havisham to lunch today, thinking I might get her out of that old wedding dress. Told her I'd buy her a new cake from Alice Mintz Hill and she could bring Estella along. She curtly said NO. Some people live resolutely in the past and you can't shake them out it. I'm so glad I'm not like that. Pip and I used to be friends but then he got expectations and is too big for his britches now, too good for ME. That was 10 years ago and I'm not bitter about it. I've moved on. The heck with the little pipsqueak.