First sight of Lolita

As Charlotte Haze shows Humbert the garden, he suddenly sees her daughter, Dolores Haze, kneeling on a mat in the sun. She is twelve years old, with honey-hued skin and a chestnut head of hair. Humbert is instantly and overwhelmingly struck by her resemblance to his lost love, Annabel Leigh. He recognizes the same child, the same nymphet, and feels a passionate, fateful connection. This moment seals his decision to stay in the Haze house, despite his earlier intentions to leave.