"The Butterfly."
A boy, tended in England by a governess and visited by his parents (who live in Asia) only in the summers, talks with his father over breakfast; the reader deduces that the mother has left her husband for another man. In the Evening News (November 27, 1952), The Watercress Girl and Other Stories (1959), A Month by the Lake & Other Stories (1987).
ID:
b251
Title:
"The Butterfly."
Genre:
Story
Page Count:
9
Word Count:
ca. 2250
Publisher:
Evening News
Year of Publication:
1952
Topic:
Boyhood
Fathers