after she 'd said a few words to dave and touched his face and kissed his cheek she kissed him twice other people moved in , and miss powell stepped aside and stood on the cracked sidewalk looking up at the leaning three-deckers and their tar paper curling up to expose the wood underneath , and she seemed younger and yet harder to jimmy at the same time , as if there was something suddenly nunnish about her , touching her hair to feel for her habit , button nose twitching and ready to judge .