"Your uncle was a bookmaker known as Jo," Aunt Augusta said.
"A very fat man. I don't know why I say that, but I have always liked fat men. They have given up all unnecessary effort, for they have had the sense to realize that women do not, as men do, fall in love with physical beauty. Curran was stout and so was your father.
It's easier to feel at home with a fat man. Perhaps travelling with me, you will put on a little weight yourself. You had the misfortune to choose a nervous profession."

Graham Greene, Travels With My Aunt