"The Lighthouse."

A story of an affair between two married people: a woman relaxed and easily juggling her weekend husband with a temporary lover, the man on break from an unhappy marriage and filled with "jealousy and weakness and fear."

In Argosy (May 1951), Colonel Julian and other Stories (1951), Seven by Five/The Best of H.E. Bates (1963). Reprinted in Sensual Love (1959).