Was he trying to rescue her? She fought not to roll her eyes. Men.
When visitors come to a worship service in my own religious tradition, a great deal depends on how warmly they are welcomed and whether they feel included or excluded by what they hear during the short time they are with us. We may have exactly one shot at communicating who we are to people who know nothing about us - or who think they already know a lot about us - but who, in either case, will remember us at the embodiment of our entire tradition, the prime exemplars of our faith.
Completely different impressions of someone can each be created by a selection of facts, or even a single fact, from the very same collection of facts about them.
Her face was an open book and yet he was still confounded by her.
How can you tell? That I like books, I mean. The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.
