She was shy in the sense that she looked into some middle distance when she said, No! — for today, for tomorrow, and all the days after!  He watched her then stand up, shift her gaze to some far distance, and awkwardly head away toward it.  Her gangly movements, which had often irritated him when in her presence, proved themselves to be, from a growing distance, the free exercise of a body when most itself.  Why had he not sensed that free spirit when with her the prior four times?  He realized, as he watched her veer to the right before taking a left, that she had been waiting for him each time he had met her, and that he had invariably left before her.  He had never seen her walk up to him, or away from him, never seen her move in space that, he could now see, she had a way of fully occupying.  He should be walking away with her now.  There are people, he sensed, whom it is best to meet in rooms of one kind or another, and others with whom one should step out and roam.