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Why, he wonders now, had he thought she would be beautiful? Partly it’s about her name, which conjures up the image of a sylph, long-limbed and lovely; but more than that, it’s by virtue of association, the echo of a lesson learned at school: the pretty girls hang out together. Because Vanessa Chapman was a beauty, he assumed her companion would be, too.