“The ground belongs to me. It is the only possession I have not relinquished. Everything else has gone from me, little by little, but I have kept this. It was the subject of the only determined resistance I made in all the wretched years.”
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 59. Estella and Pip meet in the ruins of Satis House. She is a changed and humbled character as she speaks about being owner of the dilapidated mansion, her only possession. Now free because Miss Havisham’s power is gone, we see Estella’s guilt over never standing up to Miss Havisham while she was alive.