“What are you doing up here?” she asked when she finally came out, obviously just as angry as I was. “Why did you keep ringing the bell?”
“You said to come in. Why didn’t you open the door?”
“Because you shouldn’t be here! How will it look if I have a man in my house?”
“I’ve been in your house before.”
“That was when I invited you in to help me carry my bike.”
“But you allowed me to stay for a drink. How is this different?”
“Because then I wasn’t expecting another person to show up.” She later explained how the family of a Japanese man would hire a private investigator to check into the background of his fiance and instances such as this would be enough to shed doubt on her quality as a potential wife.