Erdedy and Kate at the NA marijuana meeting (pp. 504–505)
Kate Gompert had her usual lipless expression of morose distaste, but even she gave and got some hugs.
Context
The rampant post-meeting hugging, with Kate's baseline affect noted in passing: "usual" is the load-bearing word — morose distaste as her standing face by this point in the book — while "but even she" registers the ritual's small crack in it.