The man with the chanteuse, her 'partner', watches Professor Hodges. Ideally, he'd use Soothsay to find the right angle, but if he approaches now he'll jar the mood CC is setting. Instead, he uses his innate understanding of how people relate to each other to read the frustrated woman. A past injury, surely. Done wrong by a man? Date rape, perhaps? Self-blame is almost always a trait of victims, however undeservedly. Still, the occasion for such an event would be predicated on some initial interest; the first blush of romance, the heady swell of mutual interest, the shock of un-looked for passion.....
He puts both hands over his heart, bumping them up and down to suggest a heartbeat, and then pops them out and forward, towards the Professor. "Do I dare disturb the universe? In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse." He murmurs, a bunk for a Haunted Heart to re-conjure those heady days of infatuation's first flush.