Is He Unaware of the Laws Forbidding Sexual Intercourse?

He doesn't react in a way that gives us any clue as to whether he knows about the laws forbidding sexual intercourse between races. He is a gentleman so he's outraged at the idea that anybody can tell him what to do with his body and finds her fear, her habituated fear when she then climbs into the wardrobe somewhat disgusting. One of the things that Gaudamer writes about quite a lot in relation to apartheid is how it sort of distorts people's relations in a profoundly dysfunctional waythat is actually exceptional. She says there are lines drawn and this country with this set of laws have crossed a line and it disgusts the Austrian in himhe's disgusted by her craveness