The story suggests that the couple is facing a big problem; a child. “I wish I could leave you here” (70), a clue the boy mentions when they are on the island. She means that it would be better and safer for her to stay on the island because then it would make their lives easier. The girl instead betrays him by announcing: “I know. Me too. But everything will be fine after that. I promise. It will go back to the way it was before” (70). The girl says she is doing this for her mother. She told us she wants to have the baby, but her mother says her life will go back to normal if she miscarry