Mrs. Turpin considers herself very virtuous and superior (in habits, morals, and godliness) to people of other races, other classes, and other ways of living. But an encounter at a doctor's office, with a young woman who is not at all impressed by her, shakes her belief that she is among the people closest to God.
Borderline speculative: Mrs. Turpin sees a vision in the beams of sunset, seeing people entering Heaven.
First published in the Sewanee Review, Spring 1964.
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