"Disclosure" opens in a specialist's holding up room where Ruby Turpin is holding up with her spouse, Claud. As she regularly does, Mrs. Turpin relaxes by classifying the other holding up room occupants by class—"white rubbish," working class (like her), et cetera. This is the segretated South, so there are no dark individuals here, yet Mrs. Turpin is glad to judge them, as well.

She recognizes a wonderful looking lady as one of her own class, and they start an unmoving discussion that focuses first on their belonging and in the end on their dissatisfaction with social equality demonstrators. They reason that it would be a smart thought to send every single dark peopl back to Africa. Amid this discussion, the other lady's girl, Mary Grace,