The answer to the recent question "Why does Wemmick bring a fishing-rod on his "walk" with Pip?" explained that this was a ruse by Wemmick to conceal his wedding. My question is why this would be necessary - does Dickens give any particular reason why Wemmick should want to hide the fact that he ...

Shortly after Tys graduated from university and started teaching, he'd periodically borrow money from is friend Icharus: By that time, Icarus had become a businessman (that's the title his proud neighbors and family had given him) or a smuggler (that's the title the local newspaper and police ha...