0384 is probably _1

Once you understand Ruffy Smith's shamelessness, you can roughly figure out what they were talking about.

Why was he so confident?

Ruffy had always been hanging around her, but he wasn't particularly annoying.

Over those few short months, they hadn't met many times; most of the time, they were just in one place. He knew his limits and never came to bother her too much.

He had said he liked her before.

At the time, Ellen had rejected him outright.

She didn't like Ruffy, but she didn't exactly dislike him either.

What had been bothering her recently was that dream.

The content of the dream was bizarre, and the key was that she had never thought she would have such a dream.

Could it be like what Clinton White said, that sometimes when you're alone for too long, you start to have certain other thoughts?