The last story in this collection, which is set in Ireland, demonstrates again the importance of place to Miss Welty’s fiction. It does so in that a specific locality (one among others in which her “traveling self” set her down) helps to define the thoughts and reactions of a young American wife who is temporarily running away from her husband in London, because of a strange and elusive “trouble” with him. Everything that she sees and experiences on her trip to Ireland and on her ramblings through glorious, fresh, wildly funny, dazzlingly lovely Cork (so it registers for her) explains both to us and to her what her “trouble” has been with her husband: something like an excess of hope, joy, and wonder at the glory and mystery of human life, epitomized in her vision of the young bride. Subtle emotions are still conveyed to a large extent by a place and the people belonging to it, though the place happens to be Ireland, not Mississippi.