The conflict that this passage reveals is the confusion Helen feels about whether to communicate with her teacher.
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?
As there is dense fog All Around The Ship is unable to predict the direction in which it is moving. Similarly as compared to herself or to a US ship at sea in dense fog Helen was a blind girl and was not able to see anything going around her. Therefore she compared herself with the ship in a dense fog.
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