Helen was a very successful businesswoman.She had always likednice clothes,and when she had left school she had gone andworked in a shop which sold them,not far from her home.After afew experiments she showed that she was very successful at de-signing the sorts of things that women want to buy,~1 so after afew years the owner of the shop,who was an old lady,offered tomake her a partner.~2‘It’s something I should have done longago,’she told Helen with a smile. Helen was a very successful businesswoman.She had always likednice clothes, and when she had left school she had gone andworked in a shop which sold them, not far from her home .After afew trials she showed that she was very successful at de-signing the sorts of things that women want to buy, ~ 1 so after afew years the owner of the shop, who was an old lady, offered tomake her a partner. ~ 2’It’s something I should have done longago, ’she told Helen with a smile.