Steeply accosts Joelle
She’d come out of the St. E.’s doors and turned right for the quick walk back up to Ennet and a grotesquely huge woman whose hose bulged with stubble and whose face and head were four times larger than the largest woman Joelle had ever seen had grabbed her arm at the elbow and said she was sorry to be the one to tell her but that unbeknownst to her she was in almost mind-boggling danger. It took rather a while for Joelle to look her up and down. ‘This is supposed to be news?’
Context
Carlisle's Masks-motif symmetry: "Joelle, who wears a veil, is taken by Steeply, who wears a feminine disguise" — the book's two professional concealments colliding on a sidewalk, with the disguised body the one described as grotesque. (Caveat: this tiny section never actually mentions Joelle's veil; the symmetry leans on off-page knowledge.)