[My father] was a lazy man. It was the days of independent incomes, and if you had an independent income you didn’t work. You weren’t expected to. I strongly suspect that my father would not have been particularly good at working anyway. He left our house in Torquay every morning and went to his club. He returned, in a cab, for lunch, and in the afternoon went back to the club, played whist all afternoon, and returned to the house in time to dress for dinner.
ATTRIBUTION:
Agatha Christie (1891–1976), British mystery novelist. An Autobiography, part 1 (1977).
Christie worked on this book sporadically from 1950 to 1965, though it was not published until after her death.
