Permissibility of looking at a prospective wife without seclusion

Question: This questioner says: May Allah preserve you, I fell in love with a girl intensely, and she also loved me and became very attached to me. I saw her only once, and my conversation with her has been via the telephone (within reasonable limits), and we agreed together on marriage. Most of my conversation with her was about married life, what married life requires in terms of understanding between the spouses, how a wife treats her husband, her keeping of her home, and other such matters. After a period, I informed my mother of my relationship with the one I love, and I also informed my father of this matter, and he asked me to be patient before asking for her hand from her father, given our current financial circumstances.
After I performed Hajj to the Sacred House and repented to Him from many things, praise be to Allah, is it permissible for me to answer her call if she calls me, and to speak with her, or is that not permissible? Please inform us, may Allah reward you.

Answer: It is permissible for a man, if he intends to propose to a woman, to speak with her and to look at her without seclusion. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said when a man came to him seeking his advice: He said: No. He said: He said: .
Looking is stronger than speaking, so if the conversation with her is regarding marriage and residence, and her character, so that you know if she knows such and such, there is no harm in that if he intends to propose to her. But if he does not intend to propose to her, he has no right to do that. So as long as he intends to propose, there is no harm in discussing with her matters related to the proposal and the desire to marry her, and she likewise, without seclusion, but from a distance, or in the presence of her father, or her brother, or her mother, or the like of that.