In Calyspo anent a novel Molly asked, "Is she in love with the first fellow all the time?" In Nausicaa, Bloom thought, "Remember that till their dying day. Molly, lieutenant Mulvey that kissed her under the Moorish wall beside the gardens. Fifteen she told me." So "I was thinking of so many things he didnt know of Mulvey" gives the reader an answer: Molly IS in love with Mulvey "all the time" in this novel.
