It's the same with Piers here.

He's only putting in time with it till the constituency falls vacant." "I see," said Crowther, adding with his quiet smile: "There seems to be plenty of time anyhow in the old country, whatever else she may be short of." Piers laughed as he lifted his glass.

"Time for everything but work, Crowther.

She has developed beastly loose morals in her old age.

Some day there'll come a nasty bust up, and she may pull herself together and do things again, or she may go to pieces.