“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?”<\/p>\n
“You said to come in. Why didn’t you open the door?”<\/p>\n
“Because you shouldn’t be here! How will it look if I have a man in my house?”<\/p>\n
“I’ve been in your house before.”<\/p>\n
“That was when I invited you in to help me carry my bike.”<\/p>\n
“But you allowed me to stay for a drink. How is this different?”<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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