“Just, what strikes you about each one?” Lorna says. I know Lorna a bit from group happy hours, where she never seems exactly pleased to see me and reacts to anything I say with poker-faced silence. At first I wondered what I could possibly have done to earn the hostility, but then I started to notice that she was like that with others too, and that it wasn’t hostility, but more like a mix of shyness and a complete disinterest in charming people.
