premise: He had turned and caught her staring , of course , and Wendy had frowned and looked down at her work , trying to blink away the tight feeling in her stomach . Hodges is not attractive , at least not the way Wendy is . She 's a Vegas girl , born and bred , and she 's been aware of her looks since she was old enough to notice that boys tended to talk to any part of her body besides her face . She 's used to absurdly good - looking men hitting on her in bars , at the gym , even in the field on the rare occasion she manages to leave the lab . Pretty men with shampoo commercial hair and bleached white smiles . What may have been the reason for Wendy 's discomfort ?
hypothesis: Hodges was checking her out .