Frederic offered a slightly-shy smile as Miss Calloway opened the parcel to reveal the special clock. "Instead of a cuckoo," he explained, "it will play a lullaby from a music box on the hour and only a few notes on the half-hour. I designed it as such so it would not wake your children when it sang the time." Frederic clasped his hands behind his back. Did she like it? Oh, how he hoped she liked it.