It was first published in the magazine Signature (4 October 1915) as “Autumns: II” under the pseudonym Matilda Berry.
It was published in revised form in the Athenaeum on 27 August 1920, and subsequently reprinted in Bliss and Other Stories.
Here, the story changes from present to past narrative as Mansfield shows that the music lesson, the walk etc.
all occurred in Matilda's past, and she and her brother are actually sailing away on board a ship several years down the line, that all that went before were memories.
The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative.