"Caught by the fallout, perhaps.  She tarried and looked back.  Always seemed to me to be too stiff a punishment for the peccadillo of female curiosity.  But we were speaking of Lot.  Saint Peter describes him as a just, Godly, and righteous man, vexed by the filthy conversation of the wicked.  I think we must stipulate Saint Peter to be an authority on virtue, since to him was given the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven.  But if you search the only records concerning Lot, in the Old Testament, it becomes hard to determine exactly what Lot did or did not do that established him as such a paragon.  He divided up a cattle range at his brother's suggestion.  He got captured in a battle.  When he was tipped off, he lammed out of town in time to save his skin.  He fed and sheltered two strangers overnight but his conduct shows that he knew them to be V.I.P.s whether or not he knew they were angels - and by the Koran and by my own lights, his hospitality would have counted for more if he had thought they were just a couple of unworthy poor in need of a pad and a handout.  Aside from these insignificant items and Saint Peter's character reference, there is just one thing that Lot did mentioned anywhere in the Bible on which we can judge his virtue - virtue so great, mind you, that heavenly intercession saved his life.  See chapter nineteen of Genesis, verse eight."