She said: and this is your chosen method.
I said: he told me this was his house. He told me he was the man of the house.
I said: I want to demonstrate what that means.
She said: I can be there this evening.
I said: I appreciate it.
I spent the afternoon with my mother.
She was having a reasonable day, which was the way good days were described now, as reasonable, by contrast with the unreasonable ones.
She sat in her chair by the window.
She watched me work in the garden for a while.
I came inside when I needed to start dinner.
She came to the kitchen and sat at the counter in the way she had developed, the position that allowed her to be present without being in the way, that let her participate in the activity of the kitchen without contributing physical labor she did not have.
