Hepzibah

Officials say Curia told investigators he set the fire at his mother’s house in Hepzibah on Nov. 26.

Although a veteran of playing single-episode historical figures – she was also Martha Washington and Hepzibah, wife of the King of Judah – her Queen Victoria is a muddle.

I recognized this as the purely fictional place where Hawthorne’s Hepzibah Pyncheon opened a store in the opening pages of his novel.

He picked his way through the cramped room with an air that showed he had visited many times before and bowed low over Hepzibah’s fat little hand, brushing it with his lips.

“You naughty boy, you shouldn’t have!” squealed old Hepzibah, though Harry noticed that she had an empty vase standing ready on the nearest little table.