Distortion Detection — XAT Previous-Year Questions

Read the poem carefully, and answer the following question.

I smiled at you because I thought that you
Were someone else; you smiled back; and there grew
Between two strangers in a library
Something that seems like love; but you loved me
(If that’s the word) because you thought that I
Was other than I was. And by and by
We found we’d been mistaken all the while
From that first glance, that first mistaken smile

Which of the following CANNOT be inferred from the poem?