She held that to be taken about in a boat had no relation to taking a boat and going about in it; that when Watts went her soul stayed home.
Tonight, especially, she would have the boat for what it meant to self; for to Katie, too, the sultry day had become more than sultry day.

The thing which pressed upon her seemed less humidity than the consciousness of a world she did not know.

It was not the heat which was fretting her so much as that growing sense of limitations in her thought and experience.
She wondered what the man who mended the boats would say about Ann's two worlds.
She suspected that he would agree with Ann, and then proceeded to work herself into a fine passion at his agreeing with Ann against her.

"That silly thing of two worlds is fixed up by people who can't get along in the one world," said she.

"And that childish idea of one world is clung to by people who don't know the real world," retorted the trouble-maker.
To either side of the river were factories.