While Mason succeeded in getting Ines to agree to fly to San Francisco with him, it did not go entirely as planned.
First off, her initial refusal caught him off guard.
It’s not that he’d never been rejected by a woman before. Occasionally, a girlfriend would break things off with him. He’d always do his best to take it graciously, like a gentleman.
Being turned down for a date, however — that was new.
He always made sure to read the cues― body language, subtext, hints ― before asking a woman out. After all, he was a busy man. Trying to get a woman to like you was a waste of time. Women knew what they wanted. If they weren’t interested in you, it was best to move on.
It may have been the wrong move telling her he was supposed to be taking someone else to Baltare. A misstep on his part
