"The Butterfly."

A boy, tended in England by a governess and visited by his parents (who live in Asia) only in the summers, talks with his father over breakfast; the reader deduces that the mother has left her husband for another man. In the Evening News (November 27, 1952), The Watercress Girl and Other Stories (1959), A Month by the Lake & Other Stories (1987).

ID: 
b251
Title: 
"The Butterfly."
Genre: 
Story
Page Count: 
9
Word Count: 
ca. 2250
Publisher: 
Evening News
Year of Publication: 
1952
Topic: 
Boyhood
Fathers