Tag: disappointment, layabout, lazy

It indicated to me,’ Jane replied with brutal candour, ‘that you’re some sort of good-looking, lazy layabout who drifts around the world sponging off people and he’d rather not let you get your hands on any proceeds from this house because you would blow it all—on,’ she gestured, ‘whatever lazy layabouts blow their money on. Wine, women and… horses, probably,’ she finished disgustedly.