Yes, the gimlet stare. I must admit, I did give him a firm mouth! His decisions show that he was pretty hard line when it came to divorces. No easy outs – so I thought I was on pretty solid ground with the firm mouth. Haven’t thought about the hands…

And the photos there are of him are mostly of when he was elderly,so also harder to figure out what he was in his prime! As you say, it all might disappear in the rewrite, but it adds to the sense of place and time for the reader, even if they don’t know it!