Marathe's quadruple-agent calculus (p. 754)
Seeing the deep intake of veil which his inhaling caused for one moment only, the authority expressed surprise of the face and said ‘But you did know Ennet’s a working house. Residents have a month to find work, normally.’
Context
The veil as involuntary instrument: Marathe's startled inhale sucks the cheesecloth inward, and Pat reads the fabric the way you'd read a face — a small physics lesson in what the U.H.I.D. veil actually conceals; expressions get through anyway, translated into cloth.