But there's a bit of something else.

There's just a bit of something in me, I think, which ISN'T a man running into a pub for a drink--" "And what-- ?" The question fell into the twilight like a drop of water falling down a deep shaft into a well.
"I think a man may come into possession of his own soul at last--as the Buddhists teach--but without ceasing to love, or even to hate.

One loves, one hates--but somewhere beyond it all, one understands, and possesses one's soul in patience and in peace--" "Yes," said Aaron slowly, "while you only stand and talk about it.
But when you've got no chance to talk about it--and when you've got to live--you don't possess your soul, neither in patience nor in peace, but any devil that likes possesses you and does what it likes with you, while you fridge yourself and fray yourself out like a worn rag." "I don't care," said Lilly, "I'm learning to possess my soul in patience and in peace, and I know it.

And it isn't a negative Nirvana either.

And if Tanny possesses her own soul in patience and peace as well--and if in this we understand each other at last--then there we are, together and apart at the same time, and free of each other, and eternally inseparable.