Her son will one day inherit Howards End after Margaret dies. Helen becomes more sympathetic to Henry, and less emotional about Leonard. Helen plans to raise the baby in Germany to avoid scandal, but after Leonard’s sudden death, Margaret arranges for her sister to live at Howards End with her and Henry. She refuses to return until Margaret compels her to come to Howards End under false circumstances, and Margaret realizes she is heavily pregnant with Leonard’s child. Written in 1910, Howards End is a symbolic exploration of the social, economic, and intellectual forces at work in England in the years preceding World War I, a time when vast social changes were occurring. Afterwards, she tries to give the Basts all the money they need and then leaves England for Germany. When Margaret and Henry refuse to help Leonard find a new job because of Henry’s sordid history with Leonard’s wife, Jacky, Helen is overcome with anger and despair and impulsively sleeps with Leonard. She thinks Margaret is wrong to marry Henry Wilcox, a blindly materialistic and sexist man who is older than Margaret by two decades, and she blames Henry for the bad business advice that costs their friend Leonard Bast his job. She falls in love with Paul Wilcox immediately after meeting him, then realizes just as quickly that they aren’t compatible at all. However, Helen is more idealistic, emotional, and impulsive than her responsible older sister.
The two are very close, and very similar: both unmarried, highly intelligent, cultured, and liberal-thinking. Helen is twenty-one at the beginning of Howards End, eight years younger than her sister Margaret.
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