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Most people, when they are left free to fill their owntime according to their own choice, are at a loss to think of anythingsufficiently pleasant to be worth doing. And whatever they decide on, they aretroubled by the feeling that something else would have been pleasanter. To beable to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and atpresent very few people have reached this level. Moreover the exercise ofchoice is in itself tiresome. Except to people with unusual initiative it ispositively agreeable to be told what to do at each hour of the day, providedthe orders are not too unpleasant. Most of the idle rich suffer unspeakableboredom as the price of their freedom from drudgery. At times they may findrelief by hunting big game in Africa, or by flying round the world, but thenumber of such sensations is limited, especially after youth is past.Accordingly the more intelligent rich men work nearly as hard as if they werepoor, while rich women for the most part keep themselves busy with innumerabletrifles of whose earthshaking importance they are firmly persuaded.