The girls talked about whether their mother would have liked the muffins.

Caroline described Amelia’s disastrous attempt to make a birthday cake shaped like a rabbit.

Nora wanted every detail.

Violet laughed when Caroline admitted the cake had looked more like a potato.

Later, as Caroline cleaned the kitchen, she found two blueberry muffins arranged on a plate beneath a photograph of Amelia.

The girls had left one for each person they missed.