In "A Day in the Country" (third of six in Asher's Anthology), a letter sent to a family in another town comes about because of a meeting between musicians. One of which is a craftsman, who tells his apprentice that someone he met also had relatives with the same name as the apprentice. Years later, a phone call from the family, who received the letter, leads to a visit by the now-married apprentice to the caller. What follows is-in some respects-a partial comedy and drama involving a potential religious intermarriage that fails to materialise but has remarkable consequences.