The next morning he woke, thinking of her, just as he had been doing when he went to sleep.

He tried to rationalize the episode and revolved his conjectures over and over.

Once again he put himself this question: "Why, when I went to her house, did she not let me see that I pleased her?
Never a look, never a word to encourage me.

Why this correspondence, when it was so easy to insist on having me to dine, so simple to prepare an occasion which would bring us together, either at her home or elsewhere ?" And he answered himself, "It would have been usual and not at all diverting.

She is perhaps skilled in these matters.
She knows that the unknown frightens a man's reason away, that the unembodied puts the soul in ferment, and she wished to give me a fever before trying an attack--to call her advances by their right name.
"It must be admitted that if my conjectures are correct she is strangely astute.