What does Bill notice about Emmy when they first meet in the novel, Two Wrongs?

In the first section, when Bill and Emmy first meet, Bill notices that she has holes in her stockings, with the narrator reporting that “holes in stockings always moved [Bill], softened him” (436). Though it is not explicitly stated, the reader may infer that the holes in Emmy’s stockings soften Bill because they show her to be of a similar social strata as Bill, and thus symbolize their connection by class.