"The Revelation."
The narrator watches the "housekeeper" give his Uncle Silas the weekly bath; between roasting "taters" and drinking wine, Silas relates swimming as a man, and chasing a young woman "run off across the meadow with my clothes under her arms." Claiming never to have discovered her identity, he is corrected by the housekeeper: "'Get yourself dressed man! I ain't running away with your clothes now, if I did then'...And I began to understand then something I had not understood before." A television adaptation starring Albert Finney was aired in 2001. In John O'London's Weekly (June 23, 1934), Story (November 1934), Cut and Come Again (1935), My Uncle Silas (1939), H.E. Bates (1975). Reprinted in Modern Short Stories (1939, with subsequent titles of Modern English Short Stories and English Short Stories, 1888-1937), Argosy (May 1942), Courier (January 1949), The Best Love Stories (London: Hamlyn, 1985).