“And as soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messages to them to Chaldea.”
This possibly has in mind the action of Hezekiah (Isaiah 39:1-8; 2 Kings 20:12-19), depicted in terms of a lovesick girl writing to someone whose photograph (depicted likeness) she has seen. But the idea is also more general. The flirtation was a continuous one.