Naivety

Humans in general, have a common tendency to argue in the attempts of denying what the person in front of them claimed about them that they didn't like. They tend to exchange comments and retorts with subtle facts thrown in the middle of the arguments; and as their arguments augment, there would come a point where the offended would subconsciously utter, "Even if so," in the attempts of becoming the 'bigger person' by getting in their offender's shoes and by explaining to them that their claims about them are wrong and they aren't really like that;

Thus, getting caught in the carefully laid out trap of their astute offender, who had been pretending to also have gotten agitated in the spur of the moment.

Hence, Lee expected something similar or exactly the same situation to unfold…..