From our first meeting he seemed to me so self-contained, so finished, that I couldn’t imagine he would ever find himself at someone else’s mercy. His resting expression was simultaneously placid and amused, his gestures unhesitating. Next to him I felt almost transparent. When I watched the way he treated Olivia I began to suspect that what he relished most was drawing out a person’s emotions and desires while remaining completely untouched by them.
