Not afraid, John, just profoundly uninterested. And for heaven’s sake, can’t a girl put in some Visine without you coming in and mashing your fists into her shoulders?

Alternate possible meaning here: The fellow is actually practicing his speech with a cardboard version of the woman he intends to confront  . . . if that’s the word for sneaking up behind her and talking into her cheekbone. If so, he needs to practice his lines; saying she’s afraid to love ANY man gives her an out for not loving HIM.

Apparently in the USUAL EPISODE of “the continuing drama of 3 girls   - - their lives . . . their loves . . . one cup” she was his boss, and she could order him to love her. But wait – if she wants to order him to love her, and he's obviously besotted, what's the problem? Besides his useless plastic prosthetic left hand, that is.