I dunno. Carelessness? Thinking about something else? Inattentiveness?
You know, maybe he was watching too much football and not enough movies with, you know, relationships and bonnets and period costumes. Brides like that kind of stuff, though nobody knows why.
Maybe it was the fishing. You know, the whole "fishers of men" thing? And she's like, "Oh, so you're going FISHING again, you and those guys, right? And I'm here at home? What's UP with that?"
Nope, somehow I don't guess any of those could be the answer. I give up.
Or maybe he didn't lose her. maybe that's it ....