She liked almost everyone and almost everything, but no one and nothing mattered to her very deeply; she liked going to church, always learnt her Collect first on Sunday, and gave half her pocket-money to the morning collection.

She was generous but never extravagant, enjoyed food but was not greedy.

She was quite aware that she was pretty and might one day be beautiful, and she was glad of that, but she was never silly about her looks.
When Aunt Amy, who was always silly about everything, said in her presence to visitors, "Isn't Helen the loveliest thing you ever saw ?" she managed by her shy self-confidence to suggest that she was pretty, that Aunt Amy was a fool, and life was altogether very agreeable, but that none of these things was of any great importance.

She was very good friends with Jeremy, but she played no part in his life at all.

At the same time she often fought with him, simply from her real deep consciousness of her superiority to him.