The obelisk

Hilda and Ernest are a typical married couple, squabbling their way through a day-trip.

When they meet a pair of sailors, they are both disturbed and unsettled, but their initial wariness gives way in an unlikely, and jolly, joint trip to a local landmark, which ends in surprise for both husband and wife...Elsewhere, a weekend in the country has tragic results, and a missionary struggles to convert a native chieftain in the dark and powerful 'The Life to Come'.