She loved him enough to tell him so to his face.

She would say to him: "You sought me out when I asked you for nothing; now I am yours with my whole soul, if you will have me.

I don't mind a bit being the wife of a fisherman, and yet, if I liked, I need but choose among all the young men of Paimpol; but I do love you, because, notwithstanding all, I believe you to be better than others.

I'm tolerably well-to-do, and I know I am pretty; although I have lived in towns, I am sure that I am not a spoiled girl, as I never have done anything wrong; then, if I love you so, why shouldn't you take me ?" But all this never would be said except in dreams; it was too late! Yann would not hear her.

Try and talk to him a second time?
Oh, no! what kind of a creature would he take her then to be?
She would rather die.
Yet to-morrow they would all start for Iceland.