She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was — a woman.

At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering.

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

She had understood all that he had said, with no way of knowing what he meant. It was as though he himself existed here in this town in this state in translation, ambiguous, slightly wrong, too highly colored or wrongly nuanced. Within him was the original, which no one could read.

There's nothing so confusing as finding out that you don't know someone you thought you knew.

She had the most beautiful awkwardness

If I should try to put it into words, I mean how I did see her, it would be incomprehensible, for the simple reason that I find that I never did have a really clear idea of her at any time. I had an image of her, but that is not the same thing. An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. I had gathered, of course, a good deal from you, and later, after she went away, from others, but this only strengthened my confusion. The more we learn of a person, the less we know.

She has become an expert at confusing <i>what is</i> with <i>what was</i> with <i>what should be</i> with <i>what could be</i>.

It was to him a very strange and perplexing place, where people wore fine clothes and had hard hearts.

Oh, woman, woman! (...) Thou art a mystery, an abyss, and he who thinks to know thee is totally mad.

She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.