To-morrow I shall go with you to the boat." But alas! in the morning Jeanne had again forgotten.
When at last the busy little steamer swung inshore, presently to churn her way out again into the current, Josephine went aboard with only the colored girl for her company.

Her heart sank strangely, and she felt more lonely than ever in her life before.
She leaned against the rail for a time, looking at the banks slip back across the turbid stream.

The truth was coming into her heart that it was not with exultation she now was turning back to the East to take up her life again.

Something was different now--was it the loss of Jeanne?
Again surprise, terror, shame, withal wonder..