"Prue hadn't really been in love with Fabian. Indeed, it was obvious that at times she found him both boring and irritating. But wasn't that what so many marriages were - finding a person boring and irritating and yet loving him? Who could imagine a man who was never boring, or irritating?"
Barbara Pym was an English novelist known for social comedies of manners set in postwar Britain. Her novels gained broad critical recognition in her later career.