"Dulcima."

A tale of a pitiful girl in rural England, whose manipulation of both an old widower and a young forest worker has tragic results.

In 1971, EMI Productions released a film adaptation of the work by Frank Nesbitt (who also directed), starring Carol White and John Mills, and produced by Basil Rayburn.

In Lilliput (July/August 1953), The Nature of Love (1953), Dulcima (1971, published as a monograph by Penguin Books in association with Michael Joseph, with a dedication to "To W. Somerset Maugham). Reprinted in the U.K. debut issue of Cosmopolitan (March 1972) and as part of the boxset Country and Other Matters (1973).