A check
You send a message on Tuesday. It is Thursday and there is no reply. On this lesson, what has the delay actually told you?
That they do not want to hear from youThat you should not have sent itAlmost nothing, because a delay fits a dozen ordinary explanationsThat you should send another one to check
Yes
A slow reply is one of the most ambiguous pieces of information there is. It fits a busy week, a phone left face down, a message opened while driving and forgotten, and it also fits the reading you jumped to. The point of this lesson is not that your reading is always wrong. It is that a genuinely ambiguous thing is arriving already interpreted, and you have been treating the interpretation as the event.