"How did you learn to talk like that?" I asked her, my throat dry just looking at 'her'. Jane gave the oddest smile as if she could read my mind.
"Delmonte's," Helen said, seriously. "The modeling academy. It has ads all the time in The Queen. They do voice lessons. A lot of girls like me are in the classes. Girls go for other reasons, too. I'l love to be a model. Madame Delmonte says I could be if I put my mind to it. Oh but the training is so expensive! I've so many things I have to buy! Being a girl is so much more costly that being a boy."
"You should get yourself a sugar daddy," said Jane, teasing her.
Helen blushed. "That's what everyone tells me," she said. "Do you guys know anyone like that?" She battered her eyes at me and Jane laughed out loud at her.
"Not this one, darling," Jane said to Helen-George, tantalizing me. "He's taken."