 Why was Thig so confused by the overwhelming senses he felt when he saw Ellen while posing a Lewis?
Here he patiently sat down to wait for an Earthman or an Earthwoman to pass. "With a psychic relay we will transfer the Earthman's memories and meager store of knowledge to the brain of Thig! An hour later, his scars and altered cartilage already healed and painless, Thig again scraped sand over the entrance to the space ship and set out along the moonlit beach toward the nearest path running inland to his home. Men had no mates on Ortha, sex had been overthrown with all the other primitive impulses of barbarism; so he was incapable of understanding the emotions that swept through his acquired memory. For three months he had lived with people who loved, hated, wept and sacrificed for reasons that he had never known existed.
 Men had no mates on Ortha
 She looked familiar to him  Men had no mates on Ortha  He had never seen a woman in person and was mesmorized by her beauty  He felt overwhelmed by sadness for her due to the unknown death of her husband.