Speculations
As a result of his lack of legs, Steve was confined to a wheelchair. A mask covered most of Alice’s face apart from her eyes and mouth. There were a lot of questions about the couple’s relationship among neighbors because of Alice’s mask.
Some people questioned whether the pair belonged to a certain faith that required her to conceal her face, while others hypothesized that she might be ill. Nobody dared to directly question them, though. But nobody was aware of another aspect of Alice.