After taking a business course at a business college in Jacksonville, Hattie gets a job in the city. She regrets leaving the town of Charity but sends money regularly to her family there. Presently, Hattie is an old woman of 50 years old always working for the sake of others. She thinks about her younger sister Willadean, who had started meshing with the wrong crowd. Hattie remembers how Willadean got off work one day after a day of flirting with men at the C.O.D. Cafe. She had expressed her disapproval about Willadean's behavior, but the girl had shouted that she would like to do as she pleased. Since then, Willadean had married a widower and Hattie does not hear from Willadean anymore. Hattie then talks about Gilbert who she spent most of her time raising as well. But Thrash was, and still is, a brother she could not handle. He continued to sit around without “doing a lick of work,” and is now in a State Home. Now, Hattie only returns back to Charity for the occasional funeral but otherwise sits in her apartment alone with Bell’s Palsey. Looking out the window, she laments about how she has been a Christian all her life, yet this loveless, lonely life is all she has left.