Unthinkingness

He permits him to lord it in many lands until the man in his unthinkingness forgets that it will ever end for him.

She surveys the icebox, the vegetables so small and bright as she sets them to boil, pretending to go about it as her landlady would, with a matter-of-factness and familiarity, an unthinkingness in sprinkling spice, a quiet dignity around the gas-stained stove and always-wet toilet.