By contrast, for the idle and bored woman time is a burden she aspires to get rid of; she considers it a benefit to succeed in killing time: the man's presence is pure profit; in many cases, what interests man the most in a relationship is the sexual gain he draws from it: he can, at worst, settle for spending just enough time with his mistress to perform the sex act, but what she herself wants with rare exceptions is to 'dispose of' all this excess time she has on her hands: and like the shopkeeper who will not sell his potatoes if one does not 'take' his turnips