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In S City, when she'd first shared a room with him, she'd let him zip up her clothes, and when he'd offered to spend the night with her, she hadn't avoided him and had pestered him like an octopus. She wanted to know how much this man cared about her appearance and how unattractive she was to him.

Relieved and disappointed.

Later on, he realized that he had misunderstood her