A man waits in line at a post office, trying to send some hard candy to his son, who is fighting overseas in World War II. While he waits, he sees a wealthy woman in expensive clothes and a fur coat enter the building. He identifies her as a Jewish woman. He sees that she is trying to cut to the front of the line. They make eye contact, and the woman nonverbally asks him to help her, but the man does not. After sending his package, he waits in the back of the store, watching her. He convinces himself that he's waiting because she's cutting in line, not because she is Jewish. The woman skips to the front of the line and hands over exact change for a few stamps. As she does so, the man at the back of the office reproaches the people in line for letting her cut. On her way out, the man warns her that her actions might reflect poorly on the Jewish community and confirm stereotypes for bigoted people, so she should be more careful. After she leaves, the man worries that what he did might seem anti-Semitic to the onlookers in the post office, and it may make them more anti-Semitic as well. He also thinks that he would have done something similar if the person cutting in line had been Nordic or something, but he knows it would not have been quite the same. He thinks he should not have made his remarks so publicly, and worries that he increased the net harm in the world rather than doing something good. He reckons that it isn't worth worrying about because everything depends on how other people react to the situation, so he simply hopes his son will enjoy the candy.