well , yes , probably ; she was those ellens and a thousand others : ellen in silk and ellen in denim and ellen sitting on the commode and peeing with a recipe for brown betty in one hand ; she was , she supposed , both her parts and more than her parts , when summed , could account for ... but could that possibly mean she was also the ellen carver whose well-loved daughter had been murdered and who now sat huddled in the hack of a police-car that was beginning to stink unspeakably , a woman being driven past a fallen sign reading mexican food 's , a woman who would never see her home or friends or husband again ?