Chapter Thirteen“Tick, tock, tick, tock.” The two little boys sat close together, talking in unison as the second hand on the Mickey Mouse wall clock revolved around the cartoon character's face. The woman smiled and watched them as they gazed attentively at the passing of the seconds. She pointed one by one at the numbers on the clock face and listened as the boys clearly enunciated “one, two, three,” etc.
“And who is this?” she asked, pointing at the face in the centre of the clock.
“MICKEY,” the boys shouted out together, their smiles an indication of their pleasure at the interaction with their mother.
“My, aren't you my clever little boys?” she continued. “Now, I want you to listen very carefully.”
At that, the woman began to read to them, as the man had done previously, from a bo
