I see CW as a man under tremendous control that evening. I am sure it pained him terribly to be in the same room as the woman who had written off their relationship on the word of a third party. How could he avoid the issue now? There she was in the same room. There she sat! All he could think of was what happened in year six!

Ch 8: "Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement."