ing toward the pension, and behind them is a woman wearing black dress. "The lovers were just entering the grounds of the pension. They were leaning toward each other as the water-oaks bent from the sea. There was not a particle of earth beneath their feet. Their heads might have been turned upside-down, so absolutely did they tread upon blue ether. The lady in black, creeping behind them, looked a trifle paler and more jaded than usual." (Chapter 8) "The lovers, who had laid their plans the night before, were already strolling toward the wharf. The lady in black, with her Sunday prayer-book, velvet and gold-clasped, and her Sunday silver beads, was following them at no great distance," (Chapter 12) The woman in black symbolizes certain kind of conscience and the conventional concept of the society. It's just like the lovers are restricted by the moral and conventional restrain whether consciously or unconsciousl
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