Mr and Mrs Dove
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". Plot summary. Reginald is returning to Rhodesia the next day; it is his last day in England. Again he thinks of Anne; then he goes to Colonel Proctor's to say goodbye, and he is greeted by Anne, her parents being away. On seeing him she laughs, then he tells her he is leaving. They both look at her pet doves. She remarks  how "Mr. Dove" is always running after "Mrs Dove". Reginald asks her if she likes him, and she says she cannot marry him. He's unhappy at the rejection, and tries to depart. She asks why he's upset, but he persists in leaving. As he's walking away, she calls him again, and he goes back to her. Literary significance. The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative.