Treasure
- Margaret Treasure's home is in the middle of a large cornfield. As Truman and Meridian approach, they see her carrying a canister of gasoline and setting the field on fire.
- Miss Treasure is trying to pull a large bed off the porch to add it to the flames. Meridian and Truman offer to help.
- Suddenly, a "younger woman, perhaps in her middle sixties," pops out the door (3.30.6). It's Margaret's sister Lucille, and she is not happy with her sister's little pyromaniacal spree.
- Margaret and Lucille have lived in isolation on their family's plantation for their entire lives. In recent years, however, they've been selling the land bit by bit.
- Their only human contact comes when they hire people to paint the house every few years. Something big happened last time, though—Margaret fell "in love with one of the painters," named Rims Mott (3.30.22).
- And that's how sixty-nine-year-old Margaret Treasure lost her virginity. Even more surprisingly, that's how she got pregnant.
- They push the bed off the porch, but Margaret's leg gets caught. Luckily, it doesn't seem too bad, but the fire has gone out by the time she's free.
- As she and Truman bandage up Margaret's leg, Meridian tells Margaret that she doesn't look pregnant. She suggests consulting the doctor when they bring her to get her leg checked out.
- Although "it had been years since she was off the plantation," Margaret reluctantly agrees (3.30.43). However, she's so overjoyed after hearing presumably good news that she seems ready and willing to sign up to vote.