A boyfriend. It's a common theme: I can't leave him behind, I can't go without him, I have to go back, my lover is waiting.

She supposes perhaps, in another life, she'd be foolish enough to want a lover, too. But in this one, she knows that such a relationship is also doomed, and ultimately futile. And the day would surely come when she would ferry him to her shores, if she chose a man. He would lose everything there, and she would lose him.

"Did you agree to meet here? Will he know to come?"