He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.
Edith WhartonPeople struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.
Edith WhartonAnd all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.
Edith Wharton