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Publication
The story was published in the Civil and Military Gazette on November 13th 1886, in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection.
The Story
Young Miss Gaurey has been made by her mother to marry Schreiderling, a wealthy older man. She had loved a young man, who 'bore his love quietly' and was transferred away. She pines for him and grows ugly, but has scant sympathy from her husband, who 'set great store upon speaking his mind'. One day the Other Man tells her he is coming up to Simla, and she waits in the rain to see him, in great excitement. But, already unwell, the journey is too much for him, and all that arrives is his corpse. Mrs Schreiderling continues to live in misery, with scant sympathy from her husband.
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