2 (more) great William Trevor stories

Everyone, I guess, has imagined reading his or her own obit., and William Trevor's story The Death of a Professor, in "Selected Stories," takes that trope and uses it to build an obituary - which we never actually read - to build the whole story of a life. Story involves what he calls a "jape," in which someone, unclear who exactly or why until the end, sends a false report that a professor has died, and four papers run the obit. His (much younger) wife wakes up and sees the obit in the papers, keeps it a secret from her husband - he's a bit stuffy and staid and would be upset that others including a backup rock singer get more display. He goes off to a Saturday sherry gathering among his colleagues, and we get little portraits of each, all insufferable (all men) - they of course have read the obit., know it's fake, don't quite no how to react. When he learns of the prank, he goes to a pub and gets drunk, then ambles home and tells his wife he's figured it out. Very clever twist. Is this a typically Trevor story? Maybe a little more tightly constructed (with its O.Henry ending) than most many of his others, but it does pick up the Trevor themes of the lonely outsider, making accommodations to fit in and to come to terms with the limitation of his or her life. Another great story in this volume, whose title I don't remember, is of a woman who rents a cheap apartment in a small town with the sole intent of meeting a lonely, single man and bilking him. She proceeds with ruthless effectiveness - a very strong and unusual story in that we despise, yet comprehend, the protagonist and watch with pity as she goes about her work. The victim is so easily duped; we want to warn him, and Trevor has so effectively created his duplicitous character that we feel she could have fooled any one of us. Another story about an outsider - but in this case, he's the secondary character, the victim.