Is Syrena falling for the oke-doke???

Everyone knows from the first few pages of the story that Syrena was bred from birth to be a man eater, but as the plot rolls on I'm beginning to get the inkling that Syrena is not the machine her mother built her to be, and "mamma" feels the same.

"Dear child, I received your letters,and am very much surprised to find you have gone so far in a love intrigue, in such short a time:" (65)

Syrena is mind blown over the fact that her admirer watches her and offers her fine stockings. I think this story is going to end up showing that Syrena's mother's "gold digging" teachings have actually made Syrena naive and in too much of a rush to find love and riches. Syrena is falling for every line Vardine drops on her. I noticed that she begins to have some reservations about her mother's advice of not seeing him anymore.

"and that if I could once be brought to love him, he would make me a happy woman"(68)

"why then said she, must I be debarr'd from speaking to a man that loves me?" (71)

I think that Syrena is beginning to use the material things that she is offered as a way to continue rendezvousing with Vardine. "A little conversation with him sometimes would certainly instruct me better how to behave to the sex, than a thousand lessons-besides i might get some small presents from him." (71)

" I shall hear what he has to say and it may be managed so as to get something from him"(71)

I believe this direct defiance is a sign of Syrena's future tear from her mother's mind control, because for a minute wee see that she has some type of feelings for the man outside of his financial concerns. He tells her all these sweet things and how much he loves her and even gives her money. But as soon as she expects to receive the other portion of money from him he bounces. Not only does he bounce, he does it in such a way that says to me as a reader WOW!! Did he just play her like that??!! Then he sends a letter which may be true about him having to leave because of his position in the army but he will "renew" his acquaintance with her (82). I haven't finished reading the whole story yet but I know there's more to this than we see.