Or not fur long.

Because why should I want to be tied down to one place, or have a steady job?
That would be a mean way to live.
Of course, with a person that was the doctor's age it would be different.

He had done his running around and would be willing to settle down now, I guessed.

That is, if he could get his differences with this here Buckner family patched up satisfactory.

I wondered whether he would be able to or not.