And most of Verity's was secondhand, so maybe she'd find a great deal on a sectional and could give up the beatup old couch. Stranger things had happened.

Either way, it beat going through the kids' section, where an overzealous employee might see them and draw entirely the wrong conclusions.

"We'll also pass through the storage area that way, I'm pretty sure," she said, nodding. "Which could be useful. I think the mice need a few more bins for their stuff."

Her mice honestly had more worldly possessions than she did.