Chapter 57 - FORBEARANCE

He seemed to have a built-in clock anyway and instinctively knew what time it was whenever it was important for him to know. We girls all had watched, and there were all sorts of antique clocks in our house, remarkably in sync, announcing the hour in perfect harmony. In the living room, we had a pendulum clock Daddy claimed was made in the eighteenth century and had once been hanging in the palace of Louis IV of France. The way he described it there, described the entire palace, in fact, with such detail, I was sure he had been there and had seen it there.