From the moment Irene met Henry's mother, Celia, she knew she had been making a mistake all along. Since Henry's father had long since passed, Irene tended to ask questions about him, thinking that she was helping keep the memory of his father alive. She assumed that Henry must have taken after his father the way that Arne had taken after Arthur
However, she met Celia and realized that everything she loved in Henry had come directly from this woman.
She understood immediately how Henry loved those around him so effortlessly because Celia loved people openly and without assuming she would get anything in return. Her warmth, down to the way her eyes crinkled when she smiled, was the same as Henry's.
