Who's sari?: Jahbvala story in New Yorker

Ruth Prawer Jahbvala has had a great literary career, published many fine novels and stories and is best known no doubt for her many classy adaptations of literary novels for high-quality films - and her story in current New yorker, The Judge's Will, is a good example of her work at least as I know it from limited samples: classic and traditional,, a story shaped around a family of three and one outsider, focused on a single event and a limited span of time, full of Chekhovian sorrow and irony, high-minded, yet in the end a little bit too conventional and even dull. Oh well - let's look at the strengths: it's a story of a late-middle-age judge in Delhi, a somber and sober guy, who in wake of 2nd heart attack confesses to somewhat younger and much less somber wife that he's had a mistress for many years and is remembering her in his will; wife surprisingly accommodating and unsurprised - and we see that the wife is much more emotionally involved with their 20-something son than with the emotionally distant husband. Over time, wife begins paying visits to the mistress, a working-class woman, uneducated, a seeming mismatch, and gradually builds a protective fondness for her supposed rival. Story ends on that odd and slightly ambiguous note. You can see that it would make a good movie of a certain type: indie and understated - but it's not written like a draft for a screenplay, there is too little overt action and more introspection (and back story) than in a typical screenplay. Story doesn't break much literary ground, but it's good once in a while to see a classic example of the form stop by in the New Yorker, like a visitor from the distant past.