I wonder too if I am terribly excited about something that has been done ages ago (1964) - Wide Sargasso Sea

It was obvious that this was not an Anglo-Saxon: he was too gay, too dirty, too unreserved and in his little eyes was such a mellow comprehension of all the sins and the delights of life. He was drinking rapidly one glass of beer after another, smoking a long, curved pipe, and beaming contentedly on the world. The woman with him wore a black coat and skirt; she had her back to us.
I said:
'Who's the happy man in the corner? I've never seen him before.'

I woke the next morning knowing that nothing would be the same. It would change and go on changing.

"It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong." (chapter 4)