Yes, hello, George, come on in! This is Miss Lelache, the participant from HEW. She’s here to see the Augmentor in use.” The two were shaking hands in the most ridiculously stiff way. Crash clank! went the lawyer’s bracelets. The contrast amused Haber: the harsh, fierce woman, the meek, characterless man. They had nothing in common at all.
A sociopath sees no one but himself, nobody else exists deeper than their surface; nobody else has an inner life.