"The Evolution of Saxby."

A story concerning a cold, controlling woman who buys, decorates, and sells one home after another and her helpless and disturbed husband, wanting only to settle down and garden.

In Lilliput (January/February 1953), The Daffodil Sky (1955), Seven by Five/The Best of H.E. Bates (1963), A Month by the Lake & Other Stories (1987), Love in a Wych Elm and Other Stories (2009).