Who is George Talbot from Stories and what is their importance? Stories_(Lessing) English & Literature George Talbot | Stories

George is sixty when his mistress tells him that she's not going to return to him. He battles with depression and loneliness for awhile and eventually becomes ill, prompting him to hire a nurse. The young woman is in her late thirties and George eventually comes to realize that he doesn't want her to leave. As he struggles to find happiness in this new relationship, she tells him that he's in the "habit of loving".