H.E. Bates Companion

A long story concerning a village shop-keeper turned mountain-climber, on vacation with one of his former customers; her interest in him is not reciprocated and they part unpleasantly and later his attraction to a young man, killed in a climbing accident, is revealed. Many years later, the woman attempts to trick him into a compromising situation but falls from a cliff, leaving him once again free. In The Saturday Book (Eleventh Year, October 1951), Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal and Other Stories/The Enchantress and Other Stories (1961).