" It's unfortunate that we've got to go home tomorrow but it isn't a major disaster."

Alec tried to smile. "It will be all the same a hundred years hence—is that what you mean?"

"It will all be the same a year hence," she replied. "Let's face the disappointment as cheerfully as we can and think of what we must do. We shall have to start early tomorrow morning so we had better stop at Dugal's cottage on the way back to the cave and give them the food...."

Alec watched her. Yes, this was the proper way to treat a disappointment: to accept it and get on with the job. He thought of his sister—she was very much on his mind at the moment—Zilla would have moaned and groaned and bewailed her fate and made herself and everybody else miserable. He said, more cheerfully, "I'll go and get the car. "

― D.E. Stevenson , Katherine's Marriage (The Marriage of Katherine, #2)