H.E. Bates Companion

Two widowers, making obligatory pilgrimages to the graves of their wives, find themselves side-by-side, unwillingly goading each other to a pretence of reverence and respect. With the excuse of heavy rain, they end their ritual, and hurry "away from each other with angry relief and impatience, as though they never wished to see each other again." In the New Statesman and Nation (December 30, 1933), The Woman Who Had Imagination and Other Stories (1934), Thirty-one Selected Tales (1947).