Hi Binny,
Fully agreed to what you have added to such a beautiful post by Dyehard. Important though that Pratigya's feelings are yet to be felt by Krishna. He probably is still under the impression that She hasn't changed completely. Lets see how these two react when krishna returns.
Yes! indeed! ab aayega asli maza 😃 (aur fultoo tension bhi! ). Krishna is going to be chary of any signs of affection from pratigya now. He will think of it as her trying to manaofy him. He can hardly know the great change of heart she has had. Now that all her guilt and tension about the "secret" is done with, she is totally free to express her love. (Tanthya mentions this elsewhere) But he wont see it that way.
She is looking at how hurt he is, how wounded and her love and anguish are increasing by the minute. She just wants to very bone-crushingly Jhappi pao. But he would think of it as natak. Until he realises that her life was in danger, but in spite of that she continued to endure all the danger and torture just so that she may be with him, he wont be jeked out of his own sense of hurt and injustice.
But jab pata lagega ke uski Jaan ko Jaan ka khatra hai! Then he will completely come out of the this shell of misery.
All this is bringing a certain imagery to my mind. Right now Krishna's state reminds me of a Chrysalis. The somewhat rough around-the-edges caterpillar has gone and wrapped itself up in a safe cocoon and is undergoing a silent and private transformation. And from this beautiful metamorphosis will emerge the exquisite butterfly. This particular butterfly will then be inseparable from his own particular flower!
Is baat pe ek sher yaad aaya hai, gaur farmaye --
Gul se liptee huee titilee ko hila kar dekho!
Aandhiyon tum ne darakhton ko hilaya hoga
Try and separate the butterfly clinging to its flower
Oh! Storms! you who may have felled whole trees!
Hopefully the storms of the future (and there will be many!) will be powerless to separate this very special Gul-Titilee