Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them. - E. M. Forster

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

"I knew you read the Symposium in the vac," he said in a low voice.
Maurice felt uneasy.
"Then you understand - without me saying more - "
"How do you mean?"
Durham could not wait. People were all around them, but with eyes that had gone intensely blue he whispered, "I love you."

She watched the moon, whose radiance stained with primrose the purple of the surrounding sky. In England the moon had seemed dead and alien; here she was caught in the shawl of night together with earth and all the other stars.