Gwendolen turned cold. There was not only the cruel disappointment; there was the immediate conviction that her husband had determined to take her because he would not leave her out of his sight; and probably this dual solitude in a boat was the more attractive to him because it would be wearisome to her. They were not on the plank-island; she felt it the more possible to begin a contest. But the gleaming content had died out of her. There was a change in her like that of a glacier after sunset.
"I would rather not go in the boat," she said. "Take some one else with you."
"Very well; if you don't go, I shall not go," said Grandcourt. "We shall stay suffocating here, that's all."
"I can't bear to go in a boat," said Gwendolen, angrily.

Gwendolen turned cold. There was not only the cruel disappointment; there was the immediate conviction that her husband had determined to take her because he would not leave her out of his sight; and probably this dual solitude in a boat was the more attractive to him because it would be wearisome to her.
"I would rather not go in the boat," she said. "Take some one else."
"Very well; if you don't go, I shall not go," said Grandcourt. "We shall stay suffocating here, that's all."
"I can't bear to go in a boat," said Gwendolen, angrily.
