You can't understand--you don't understand--" He came up to where she stood looking at him in silence.
It seemed to her now that what he was saying was perfectly true, and that she wanted many more things than the love of one human being--the sea, the sky.

She turned again the looked at the distant blue, which was so smooth and serene where the sky met the sea; she could not possibly want only one human being.
"Or is it only this damnable engagement ?" he continued.

"Let's be married here, before we go back--or is it too great a risk?
Are we sure we want to marry each other ?" They began pacing up and down the room, but although they came very near each other in their pacing, they took care not to touch each other.

The hopelessness of their position overcame them both.

They were impotent; they could never love each other sufficiently to overcome all these barriers, and they could never be satisfied with less.