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• Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair,
• When with your blood you daily paint her thus.
• "Is her name Ellen or Helen, Miss Viner? I thought - "
• Miss Viner closed her eyes.
• "I can sound my h's, dear, as well as anyone, but Helen is not a suitable name for a servant. I don't know what the mothers in the lower classes are coming to nowadays."
• - - - in 1910 she brought Helen into the world, the little female, or "mujercita", as her mother called all the babies, naming her after the glittery label on a facial ointment, The Helen of Troy Beauty Pomade, said to eradicate wrinkles, to soften and add a youthful glow to the user's skin - a fortuitous choice because, of all the sisters, she would be the most beautiful and, never growing old, would always possess the face of a winsome adolescent beauty.
• Gemma followed her, thinking that Helen seemed rather an old-fashioned and elegant name for this rumpled young mother.