" The bidding began at $800, and Milo was eventually and unwittingly purchased, after brisk bidding, by MacDonald for Governor Breck for $1,500, due to his highly-developed and impressive capabilities." By the end of the week, she is renamed Vicki Lester - she learns of her new screen name when she receives her first paycheck.Humbert: You""re in Spain?Charlotte: No, Mexico.She points toward her husband""s picture [a serious portrait which looks like a photograph of a young Nabokov, the novel""s author] - and her prized materialistic possession: "He was a lovely human being.Josaphat returns with more news regarding the accident, and announces the presence of Grot (Heinrich George) - the bearded chief foreman and guardian of the Heart Machine, who has an important message."His common-sense diagnosis to Charlotte""s shrewish, blameworthy mother is that she is "most seriously ill.