Jamie hauls one of the boxes at random off the pile--from the general size and shape, it looks to Rosie like the other bedside table, but she couldn't be entirely sure--and it's as good a place as any to start again.

"The man who delivered everything says each box should have everything you need to build whatever's inside," she explains, before getting the pair of scissors she'd been using to open everything. "Instructions, all the pieces, the screws and nails and all of that." That should still struck her as a little dubious, a source of slight concern at the back of her mind, but she'd had decent luck with everything so far. She only hopes it'll continue to hold until the last box is opened.

"Here," she says, handing the scissors over to Jamie. "If you want to open the box, I left the tool kit in the other room--I'll go get it."