The Three Strangers

The clever short story, "The Three Strangers,"
On a snowy winter's afternoon, a farmer and his wife are celebrating the christening of their infant daughter with friends and family. The party is
interrupted by the arrival of a stranger, a poorly dressed man seeking shelter from the cold. Soon a second stranger appears. This man is finelydressed and acts pompous and offensive. The guests are impressed by the humility of the
first man, and angered by the arrogance andbravado of the second. Then, a third stranger arrives. He enters the farmhouse, looks briefly at the first two strangers, then turns and runs back into the cold. What unusual, unconventional
and unspoken relationship do the three strangers have with each other? The mystery is solved when the guests are sent out into the snowy evening to search for the third stranger.