Great Expectations

why does pip believe mr. jaggers may be jealous?

chapter 36

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Pip thinks that Miss. Havisham had not told Jaggers of her intent to set Pip and Estella up. This, Pip surmised, made Jaggers jealous,

"From this last speech I derived the notion that Miss Havisham, for some reason or no reason, had not taken him into her confidence as to her designing me for Estella; that he resented this, and felt a jealousy about it; or that he really did object to that scheme, and would have nothing to do with it."