"Chateau Bougainvillaea."

On holiday in France, a young schoolteacher discovers that with her betrothed "the future was already a thing of the past."

In John O'London's Weekly (April 22, 1938), Atlantic Monthly (January 1939), The Flying Goat (1939), Thirty-One Selected Tales (1947), Selected Short Stories of H.E. Bates (1951), Selected Stories (1957), The Good Corn and Other Stories (1974), Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories (1989), Love in a Wych Elm and Other Stories (2009).

Reprinted in The Valentine Generation and Other Stories (1980, with title "Castle Bougainvillea").