England, My England and Other Stories

The husband laughs and jokingly berates the man for bringing the peacock home and suggests that, although his wife loves it very much, he will perhaps kill it.

When war breaks out the boy returns as a young man and spends time with the patriarch of the house who is close to death.

"Samson and Delilah" details the narrative of a woman whose husband had abandoned both her and her newborn child to go mining for gold, only to return unannounced some fifteen years later to the lodging where his wife serves as a landlady.

"The Primrose Path" tells of the youngest sibling of a family, considered to be a black sheep of sorts, who leaves his first wife for a young woman who later, according to him, poisons him.

He jumps around from England to Australia and back, where he finally settles in as a taxi-cab driver and takes up with a young woman, living with both her and her mother.