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The fog is already on the water when Anna boards . It is not dangerous , but it is total . The other passengers go straight below . Anna sits on the stern bench . Leo coils the rope beside it . The deck belongs to the two of them . From the bridge , the captain says one word : " Fog . " The engines slow to half - speed . The Santa Rosa moves into the grey , and the island of Scoglio disappears behind them . The mainland does not exist yet . There is only the boat and the water . This crossing will take eighty minutes of water . In the long grey middle of the sea , they talk — actually talk . About why she teaches on an island . About the boats Leo 's father builds . Leo speaks about the boats without his usual economy . Anna speaks about her students as though they are the reason Scoglio exists . The silence is still there , but it sits differently now . He hits the machine once . The fog sits on calm water — calm as glass . He glances at the drawing pinned above it and comes back up to the deck . The dock comes out of the grey slowly , closer than it seemed possible . At the last moment the gulls return , crying at the rail . The fog lifts just enough to see the dock lights . At the dock , Leo has been building toward something . He begins : " I — " The horn sounds at six . The horn is still sounding .
