"You refuse to let go and spend time with me," Lyke Zhekova said. "You've drawn a line between us."
That was natural, thought Peggy Lewis.
She and Lyke Zhekova were so different; they were from two different worlds.
There was no need to deliberately draw a line; she would unconsciously distance herself from him.
"That's why I thought, first, let's dispel some of your preconceptions and defences about me," Lyke Zhekova continued.
"I don't have any preconceptions about you." Peggy Lewis felt unjustly wronged by this point.
"Don't you? You feel a distance between us and think we are people from two different worlds. You think Zhekova family is out of reach, that's your prejudice against me." Lyke Zhekova said.
"But, in practice, I have shown you that those initial perceptions of yours do not exist," said Lyke Zhekova.
Lyke Zhekova slightly smiled, "Let's not stray from the subject."