A great deal of what you say I do not understand.
What I do understand, I dislike." She left him, with an inscrutable look.

He made no effort to open the door for her.

He simply stood listening to her departing footsteps, listened to the shrill summons of the lift-bell, listened to the lift itself go clanging downwards.

Then he resumed his seat at his desk.

With his hands clasped nervously together, an ink smear upon his cheek, his mouth slightly open, disclosing his irregular and discoloured teeth, he was not by any means a pleasant looking object.
He blew down a tube by his side and gave a muttered order.