Mr. Micawber eventually gets his debts settled and is due to be released from prison.
While sharing a meal with Mrs. Micawber, on the eve of Mr. Micawber's release, David rushes off to fetch Mr. Micawber when Mrs. Micawber goes into hysterics at the suggestion she might abandon Mr. Micawber. Mr. Micawber hurries to assuage his wife, and at the sight of their devotion to one another, David himself is reduced to tears. David parts from the Micawbers with the ironic sense that they're not as half as happy as when they were steeped in financial difficulties. As for David himself, he feels the prospects of parting with the Micawbers, who have been his only friends in London and who will move en masse to Plymouth upon Mr. Micawber's release, unendurable.
The fact that David will part ways with
