"We must go at once," she said, confused.
"Did you find out all you wanted to know from him, Aunt Kate ?" he asked, getting in the boat.
She transcended her embarrassment.

"No, Worth.

Only that there is a very great deal I would like to know." He was standing ready to push her boat away.

She did not give the word.
As she looked at him she had a fancy that she was leaving him in a lonely place--she who was going back to what he called the sunny paths.

And not only did she feel that he was lonely, but she felt curiously lonely herself, sitting there waiting to tell him to push her away.