And he had prepared, quietly and thoroughly, for the day she proved him wrong.

I have thought a great deal, since, about the difference between planning and preparing, because Caleb drew it so sharply in that whispered exchange, and because it turns out to be the difference between two entirely different kinds of person.

A person who plans a confrontation wants it.

They lay a trap and they wait, hoping their target walks into it, because the confrontation is the point, the vindication is the reward, the scene is the thing they are secretly hungry for.

That was not Caleb, and it was the furthest thing from Caleb.