At the end of their vacation Jo suggests leaving by train because a local told her the steamship has a habit of sinking “Your colors can only take so much water”
The rattling carriage slices through the dusky downtown Hopper spots lobstermen hunched over cups of coffee in dusty diners with pressed tin walls then passes rows of white houses where families in amber aquariums turn and wave
But Hopper is drawn to the black windows where other people, those he cannot see face down their reflections in the dark