I took it all in, his familiar scowl, which had always been his default in dealings with me, his alarming baldness, more advanced than my own, his famous resemblance to Mummy which was fading with time, with age.
As Anderson Cooper said, this is just cutting. It's not attempting to reconcile their past and present. However, I'm happy to talk about his baldness in an honest way, if you prefer. That works just as well for me.