What word best describes armory’s attitude toward eleanor

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What word best describes armory’s attitude toward eleanor

Missing Passage,

For years afterward when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places beside his heart. The night when they rode up the slope and watched the cold moon float through the clouds, he lost a further part of him that nothing could restore; and when he lost it he lost also the power of regretting it. Eleanor was, say, the last time that evil crept close to Amory under the mask of beauty, the last weird mystery that held him with wild fascination and pounded his soul to flakes.

Fascinated

the answer is fasinated

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i believe it is "he will always remain extremely timid" if its wrong sorry