“I don’t know yet what I shall do,’ he said. ‘Perhaps I shall stay here. I want to work. I want to be active. It’s time I had some object in front of me. And if I can’t find one, I’ll invent one. I can’t go on like this.’ ‘People never worried about such things in my time,’ she said. ‘Then a man’s aim was to make money and marry and have children.’ ‘Perhaps I shall get used to that,’ he said. ‘What’s that phrase of yours?’ She stopped work. ‘Man is a creature of habit,’ she said emphatically.”