"'Aunt's' a horrid name.

I never liked my Aunts." "I should like to call you Helen," Rachel answered.
"D'you think me very unsympathetic ?" Rachel reviewed the points which Helen had certainly failed to understand; they arose chiefly from the difference of nearly twenty years in age between them, which made Mrs.Ambrose appear too humorous and cool in a matter of such moment.
"No," she said.

"Some things you don't understand, of course." "Of course," Helen agreed.

"So now you can go ahead and be a person on your own account," she added.
The vision of her own personality, of herself as a real everlasting thing, different from anything else, unmergeable, like the sea or the wind, flashed into Rachel's mind, and she became profoundly excited at the thought of living.
"I can by m-m-myself," she stammered, "in spite of you, in spite of the Dalloways, and Mr.Pepper, and Father, and my Aunts, in spite of these ?" She swept her hand across a whole page of statesmen and soldiers.
"In spite of them all," said Helen gravely.

She then put down her needle, and explained a plan which had come into her head as they talked.