Powerless to lift the veil of melancholy she wears like a bride, he is considerate enough not to exploit the vulnerability he senses in her. He bows out of her emotional space graciously as she herself leaves his cabin. When she seeks him again later, he is gone. Ted has disappeared without a trace and with him, the magic. The shipyard is grayer than ever.
Life is bleak.
Bleaker still when her treating doctor recommends a new course of treatment involving powerful drugs and possibly debilitating side effects. Moments later, the bag full of medicine she discards in a rubbish bin as she is walking down the street contains the last remnants of her hopes. She has made a choice. She is giving up. It is at this fateful juncture that an excited young man appears and starts rummaging through the bin's content.