"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).

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ID: 
b207
Title: 
"Elaine."
Genre: 
Story
Page Count: 
9
Word Count: 
ca. 2940
Publisher: 
Evening News
Year of Publication: 
1953
Document Type: 
First-Person Narratives
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