Question

Why does the narrator hesitate to be a partner of Laura Hinkle during the Ouija board party?

Answer 1

 The narrator's wife had told him to partner Laura Hinkle as her partner, Mrs William Augustus Wainright had not come.When the narrator apporached, Laura looked at him with a flirtatious smile that implied danger for him as she was unturstworthy. So, because of these reasons narrator hesitate to be a partner of Laura Hinkle during the Ouija board party.