Warm as a love poem she greeted me

[The Valkyrie]

Not exactly. 

I have often mistaken a friendly response as acceptance. Sometimes those who don't want a relationship with you are polite about their rejection.

Don't get me wrong. Experience shows that also, there are times those you throw your hormones at, do respond. But the reality is, it isn't enough to project your desire for someone.

So, what...when Katie McManus told me, 'Not if you were the last man on Earth AND on fire', that was a rejection??

Boru

No. Just playing hard to get.

If you’d persisted you would have got to sink the sausage (or been arrested).