"Mr and Mrs Dove" is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield.
It was first published in The Sphere on 13 August 1921, and later reprinted in The Garden Party and Other Stories.
Reginald asks her if she likes him, and she says she cannot marry him.
She asks why he's upset, but he persists in leaving.
The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative.