H.E. Bates Companion

A comic piece involving a near-sighted and eccentric spinster, a widower "who looked not at all unlike a round fresh radish," and a young man who watches with some disgust as his aunt orchestrates the seduction of her future husband. In The Saturday Evening Post (February 10, 1962, with title "Trespassers Beware"), Argosy (August 1962), The Fabulous Mrs. V (1964), Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories (1989).