Accordingly, if you have not sufficient strength of will to set yourself some task, my will shall come to your aid.

I suggest, nay, I insist, that you proceed manfully with your 'History of Human Ignorance,' about which I have heard nothing for months, and that you show me at least the first volume ready for the press by the end of this time next year." Wilhelm caught desperately at this advice, offered to him by his friend in the paradoxical form of a command.

He got out his books and papers again, and began devoting his mornings to work.

Pilar was delighted.
She was far too wise not to know that honeymoons do not last forever, and although she was persuaded that she, for her part, would never desire anything better than to be always at Wilhelm's side, passing the time in interminable conversations about herself and himself, in kissing and fondling, she quite understood that that was not enough to satisfy a man accustomed to a wider range of pursuits.

She had looked forward with anxiety to the moment when mere love-making would pall upon him, and he would begin to be bored, and wish for a change.