Molly serves Mr. Jaggers with indifference and without any warmth of respect. Without a word she brings the meal and avoids any kind of conversation with him, if at all possible. She seems to avoid eye contact with all the men in the room. Mr. Jaggers treats Molly as an obstacle of interest, not as a human being. When he bids her show the scars on her arms, he has no concern of what her feelings of this are, at being put on display. Her strength and her willingness to kill out of revenge is a point of entertainment to Jaggers. It is only toward the end of the story that the reader learns of her background and her centrality to the lives of Magwitch and Estella. To Jaggers, she is one item of business in his daily tasks, as is Pip and presumably all he encounters.
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