I can infer that the man is looking at his reflection in the stream. As if he were Narcissus looking into the stream. In paragraph 407, "Here Narcissus, tired of hunting and the heated noon, lay down, attracted by the peaceful solitudes and by the glassy spring." The women however, is like Echo, which who was watching Narcissus in the woods. In the paragraph 370 "One day, when she observed Narcissus wandering in the pathless woods, she loved him and she followed him, with soft and stealthy tread."
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