she reads the press accounts obsessively , making no comment , but fred does n't like the way her eyes jump around , or some of the other tics she 's picked up : the obsessive touching of her tongue to her upper lip , for instance ... and sometimes , this in the last two or three days , he has seen her tongue reach all the way up and pet at her philtrum just below her nose , a feat he would have thought impossible if he had not seen it again last night , during the local news .