I sort of agree that going back, you can find examples of more than platonic feelings coming from Martin, IF (big if) you read it a little liberally into the story. But it's difficult because people jump on any sort of subtlety right away when they're reading, so it can be very hard to surprise an audience with that information without just "making it up at the end" (for lack of a better phrase). It doesn't really bother me at all, so I don't put much into it.

~DarkSov