the hugging man

i believe that lakshmi feels she is safe with this man. lakshmi says in the book his skin was as soft as the velvet of talis nose.this shows that laksmi likes this american alot becuase did not force her to have sex with him but instead he just gives her a big nice hug ,and lakshmi hugs back. at first lakshmi was scared of the american so she did not talk to him but then he gave her a card and then he said if she wanted to get out of the house she was scared but then she knew she could trust him.