She placed the orders between 10:40 and 11:15 most nights, from bed, with the lamp off. A gooseneck lamp. A rice cooker. Eleven dollars of silicone kitchen tools in a color called Sage. The good part was the notification at 6:02 a.m. — out for delivery — and then the four minutes of standing in the driveway in a robe.

The rice cooker went to the guest room, still taped. So did the gooseneck lamp, and a shiatsu neck massager, and a label maker she bought to organize the guest room. Her daughter visited in April and slept on the couch. Neither of them mentioned it, and the room stayed closed the rest of the weekend.