"Elaine."

A couple bicker in a train compartment, the woman a "pretty tigress that did not smile" and the man pouty and fussy.

In Evening News (September 3, 1953 and again on August 12, 1987), The Daffodil Sky (1955), Seven by Five/The Best of H.E. Bates (1963), A Month by the Lake & Other Stories (1987).