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Anna boards with her folder , as always , but today she is carrying something separately — a single drawing , folded once and held apart from the others . They move across the water like sheep across a field . She sits on the stern bench . Leo coils the rope beside it . The gulls are riding the chop above the boat . From the bridge , the captain says one word : " Sheep . " The Santa Rosa moves unevenly through the whitecaps . The deck lifts and settles . It will not be a smooth crossing . Halfway across , Anna takes the folded drawing from under her arm and holds it out to Leo without ceremony . He puts down his rope and opens it . One of her students had drawn the Santa Rosa — white hull , rust at the waterline , and on the stern deck a small figure coiling rope in a slow , even spiral . Leo looks at the drawing for a long time . Then he says : " She got the rope right . " He hits the machine once . The sea is rough , and the machine does not work . He finds a pushpin in his jacket pocket , as if he always carries one . He pins the drawing above the hot - chocolate machine . He comes back up without any cups and coils his rope . On the bench , with her folder closed and the drawing given away , the silence between them is different . It has settled into something comfortable . The whitecaps are enough company . The gulls ride the chop all the way . The dock comes into view . She begins : " I — " The horn sounds at six .
