And so with most of the matters of ordinary life⁠ ⁠… how you make your money, or whether you love your wife, or if you have “affairs.” All these matters concern only the person concerned, and, like going to the privy, have no interest for anyone else.

“The whole point about the sexual problem,” said Hammond, who was a tall thin fellow with a wife and two children, but much more closely connected with a typewriter, “is that there is no point to it. Strictly there is no problem. We don’t want to follow a man into the W.C. , so why should we want to follow him into bed with a woman? And therein lies the problem. If we took no more notice of the one thing than the other, there’d be no problem. It’s all utterly senseless and pointless; a matter of misplaced curiosity.”

“Quite, Hammond, quite! But if someone starts making love to Julia, you begin to simmer; and if he goes on, you are soon at boiling point.”⁠ ⁠… Julia was Hammond’s wife.