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           AllwereaboutthesameageasClifford;theyoungintellectualsoftheday.Theyallbelievedinthelifeofthemind.Whatyoudidapartfromthatwasyourprivateaffair,anddidn’tmuchmatter.Noonethinksofinquiringofanotherpersonatwhathourheretirestotheprivy.Itisn’tinterestingtoanyonebutthepersonconcerned.

           Andsowithmostofthemattersofordinarylife...howyoumakeyourmoney,orwhetheryouloveyourwife,orifyouhave’affairs’.Allthesemattersconcernonlythepersonconcerned,and,likegoingtotheprivy,havenointerestforanyoneelse.

           ’Thewholepointaboutthesexualproblem,’saidHammond,whowasatallthinfellowwithawifeandtwochildren,butmuchmorecloselyconnectedwithatypewriter,’isthatthereisnopointtoit.Strictlythereisnoproblem.Wedon’twanttofollowamanintothew.c.,sowhyshouldwewanttofollowhimintobedwithawoman?Andthereinliestheproblem.Ifwetooknomorenoticeoftheonethingthantheother,there’dbenoproblem.It’sallutterlysenselessandpointless;amatterofmisplacedcuriosity.’

           ’Quite,Hammond,quite!ButifsomeonestartsmakinglovetoJulia,youbegintosimmer;andifhegoeson,youaresoonatboilingpoint.’...JuliawasHammond’swife.

           ’Why,exactly!SoIshouldbeifhebegantourinateinacornerofmydrawing-room.There’saplaceforallthesethings.’

           ’Youmeanyouwouldn’tmindifhemadelovetoJuliainsomediscreetalcove?’

           CharlieMaywasslightlysatirical,forhehadflirtedaverylittlewithJulia,andHammondhadcutupveryroughly.