Such an intimacy as this could not be wise, and its want of wisdom became the more strongly impressed upon him the nearer he got to shore, and the more he felt that when he had got ashore he should not know how to act in regard to her.
The intimacy had certainly become very close.

He had expressed his great admiration, and she had replied that, 'had things not been as they were,' she could have returned the feeling.

But she did not say what the things were which might have been otherwise.

Nor did she seem to attempt to lead him on to further and more definite proposals.

And she never spoke of any joint action between them when on shore, though she gave herself up to his society here on board the ship.