"The Man Without a Temperament" is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield.
It was first published in Arts and Letters in Spring 1920, and later reprinted in Bliss and Other Stories.
The Salesbys go for a turn; she stops and sits while he goes on for a longer walk.
He then walks on, imagines he is going back home for dinner, with Dennis and Beaty as guests.
The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative.