"The Major of Hussars."

A story of an eccentric retired major of nearly sixty and his twenty-five year old wife, set in the Swiss mountains.

In The Saturday Book, (November 1947), Pick of To-Day's Short Stories, 1st Series (1949), Colonel Julian and other Stories (1951), Seven by Five/The Best of H.E. Bates (1963), The Best of H.E. Bates (1980), Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories (1989).