The condition is laid down.

Your acceptance of it, and your observance of it as binding, is the only remaining condition that I am charged with, by the person from whom I take my instructions, and for whom I am not otherwise responsible.

That person is the person from whom you derive your expectations, and the secret is solely held by that person and by me.

Again, not a very difficult condition with which to encumber such a rise in fortune; but if you have any objection to it, this is the time to mention it.

Speak out." Once more, I stammered with difficulty that I had no objection.
"I should think not! Now, Mr.Pip, I have done with stipulations." Though he called me Mr.Pip, and began rather to make up to me, he still could not get rid of a certain air of bullying suspicion; and even now he occasionally shut his eyes and threw his finger at me while he spoke, as much as to express that he knew all kinds of things to my disparagement, if he only chose to mention them.