There's a bit more nuance than that. There's "absolutely no contact" at one end, there's "they planned it together" on the other. There's a lot of space in between.
Common sense dictates that he saw her somehow. To quote Hannibal Lecter, "we begin by coveting what we see every day."
I never claimed no contact. You will in fact find that I previously made a conjecture about how she was chosen that has since been confirmed.