Orin's wheelchairs return
It was strange upon strange; it was almost as if the legless and pathologically shy punting-groupies were somehow afraid of Moment’s Junoesque Ms. Steeply—Orin had seen his last wheelchair the day before she came up, and now (he realized, driving) it was only hours after she’d left that they were now back, with their shy ruses. […] it kertwanged on him that the handicapped man at the hotel room’s door had had a wheelchair, that it was the first wheelchair he’d seen since Hal’d hit him with his theory, and that the legless surveyer had had (stranger) the same Swiss accent as the hand-model.
Context
Orin driving away from the hand-model tryst, finally doing the math: the wheelchairs vanished while Steeply was around and were back within hours of her leaving. He's been reading the legless watchers as "punting-groupies" — shy fans — because disability is the one costume his sentimentality can't see through, which is precisely why the A.F.R. wears it. ("[S]urveyer" is the text's spelling.)