Odour of Chrysanthemums
Elizabeth Bates, pregnant and hard with it, keeps the dinner warm in a cottage beside the pit railway and tells her two children that their father is drinking again rather than late off the shift. Ragged chrysanthemums grow by the path, and she remembers she had them at her wedding and when he was first brought home drunk. Ford Madox Ford took it for the English Review on the strength of the opening paragraph, and Lawrence went on revising it for a decade.
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