Orin under the tumbler (p. 971)
She stood looking at him, her arms crossed, smoking, exhaling greenly through her nose, then looked down to confer with another face, seeming to float at about waist-level, that belonged to the shy and handicapped fan who O.’d realized had shared the Subject’s Swiss accent.
Context
Orin wakes inside the giant inverted glass — the A.F.R.'s technical interview. Through the CO2 steam he sees the Swiss hand-model who lured him, and beneath her a second face "seeming to float at about waist-level": wheelchair height. The "shy and handicapped fan" is the whole n.110 stalking apparatus sprung shut in one clause; disability as the A.F.R.'s perfect cover — Orin's "rising heart went out" to a legless fan in 119, and this is where that sympathy was headed.