The clearing papers can be attended to later.

I'll have the _Laminian_ dingey take me ashore, somewhere down near Barcola, if it can possibly be done in this wind.

Then I'll come out to the _Slavonia_ later, having, you see, just arrived on the train from Venice!" She shook her head doubtfully.

An inapposite and irrational dread of seeing him return to the dangers of land took possession of her.

She knew it would be impossible for her to put this untimely feeling into words, so that he would see and understand it; and, such being the case, she argued with him stubbornly to alter his plan, and to allow her to be the one to go ashore, while he went immediately to the liner.
He consented to this at last, a little reluctantly, but the thought that he was safely installed in his cabin, as she made her way shoreward through the dusk, in the pitching and dripping little dingey, consoled her for the sense of loneliness and desertion which her position brought to her.