Habits

"After hemming and hawing for several days, she decided to go see Professor Orsells and ask him for an extension. To ready herself for this ordeal, and as was her custom anytime a problem was worrying her, she went shopping the day before the morning she was to meet with him, and bought herself a dress and two pairs of shoes"

Jacques Roubaud, Our Beautiful Heroine, 121.

I don't do that; no, not at all...