How would you interpret this phrase ‘content to eat and drink’? How would you interpret this phrase ‘content to eat and drink’ in the second sentence? Does it mean they were content with what they ate and what they drank? Or does it mean they like eating and drinking? Thanks! It’s from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by McCullers. the context: But the two mutes were not lonely at all. At home they were content to eat and drink, and Singer would talk with his hands eagerly to his friend about all that was in his mind. So the years passed in this quiet way until Singer reached the age of thirty-two and had been in the town with Antonapoulos for ten years.