"Queenie White."
A married woman does a "bunk" from her husband ("a mean, maungy, jealous man") for a day with Uncle Silas; he recollects their day at the beach, her refusal to return home, their "vacation" for the "best part of a fortnit," and the inevitable confrontation with the husband. Attacking him "like a Irishman a-mowin' into a forty-acre field o' barley...and then when it wur all over she picked 'im up and dragged 'im off like a rabbit skin," Queenie "wur a free woman arter that. She wur boss arter that." Silas's advice in the end is "Mek the most on it while you can, boy...Take a tip from Silas--mek the most on it while you can." A television adaptation starring Albert Finney was aired in 2001. In Argosy (January 1957), Sugar for the Horse (1957), H.E. Bates (1975).