John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott painting
Claude Monet Water Lily Pond painting
Couldn't you have changed her name?"
"No, the thing was impossible. I tried to, but I couldn't do it, any more than I could change yours. AVERIL was so real to me that no matter what other name I tried to give her I just thought of her as AVERIL behind it all. But finally I got a plot that matched her. Then came the excitement of choosing names for all my characters. You have no idea how fascinating that is. I've lain awake for hours thinking over those names. The hero's name is PERCEVAL DALRYMPLE."
"Have you named ALL the characters?" asked Diana wistfully. "If you hadn't I was going to ask you to let me name one -- just some unimportant person. I'd feel as if I had a share in the story then."
"You may name the little hired boy who lived with the LESTERS," conceded Anne. "He is not very important, but he is the only one left unnamed."
"Call him RAYMOND FITZOSBORNE," suggested Diana, who had a store of such names
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