she cleared the empty takeout boxes from the table and laid the following arrangement from the contents of her 9 coat pockets- a sewing needle , a spool of violet thread , a mechanical pencil , a printer cartridge that she had emptied and refilled with home-made violet ink , and , as always , her violet monogrammed cigarette case , custom-made to fit 9 cigarettes , hand-rolled with the violet paper she had dipped in perfume to smell like violets .