no-mindedness

Updated: June 18, 2025

"Oh, yes," said Staniford, gravely. "Most women, I believe, are so innocent as to think a man in love when he behaves like a lover. And this one," he added ruefully, "seems more than commonly ignorant of our ways, of our infernal shilly-shallying, purposeless no-mindedness.

William Dean Howells - The Lady of the Aroostook