Millie (short story)
short story by Katherine Mansfield
"Millie" is a 1913 short story in the Modernist, stream-of-consciousness style by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Blue Review in June 1913, and was one of the first stories published by Mansfield. It was reprinted in her 1924 collection Something Childish and Other Stories.
Plot summary
Millie, the wife of a labourer in a rural farming community, waits alone in her house, while her husband and the other men of the village go in search of Harrison, an Englishman who has supposedly shot and killed a neighbour, Mr Williamson. After speculating on the eventual lynching of the suspect, then thinking about her own childlessness and looking at her wedding pictures in Mount Cook, Millie hears a noise coming from the garden and finds a wounded man lying there. She is both alarmed and touched by the man's plight, but seeing that he is very young – really not much more than a boy – she decides to help him. The wounded man asks when the other men are due to return, and Millie realizes that this is Harrison, the suspected murderer. Millie tends to Harrison's injuries and hides him, promising herself fiercely that he will go free, regardless of justice or authority.
The men return home. Millie is anxious, knowing Harrison is still in hiding nearby.
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