Addendum.

(The leftovers were creamed spinach, and she said she used to make it at home and that she likes that recipe a lot.  I asked her if her parents used to make it back when she was growing up, and she said yes her mother did, she was a good cook.  I then asked her if her family had a garden back in the [German] spa town that she lived in before the War, and she said that they didn't, that they lived in an apartment building on the fourth floor of a six-story building with an elevator, she said, and one that they used to call a 'villa,' since it stood independently and there were no other buildings connected to it.)