"For such reasons I was very glad when ten o'clock came and we started for Miss Havisham's; though I was not at all at my ease regarding the manor in which I should acquit myself under that lady's roof."
Why did uncle Pumblechook keep quizzing Pip about multiplication problems and why would Pip be excited to go be at a place with an old lady he didn't even know?
I'm not sure about why uncle Pumblechook is always quizzing Pip, but I think that I know why he was excited to visit Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham is an extremely wealthy, upper-class member of society. Pip, as we know, is working class, and the ways of the upper class members of society are a mystery to him. Being invited by Havisham to come play is a great honour to Pip, and because Miss Havisham is rich, Pip probably expects to be brought to a grand house with gold pavings and whatever sort of fancy decorations a child's mind would think of.
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