Match the reunion stage
After Serving Tea, go through the door left of Alexandra’s crate into the living room. James is the baby with Alexandra. The scene’s champagne box uses 1753, shown on its nearby note.
There are two reasons to search for “soothing the baby”: the optional reward named Soothing the Baby, and the later crying that interrupts the reunion. The reward uses the bottle; the crying sequence uses the characters and the moon.
Unlock Soothing the Baby
Open the champagne box early
At the cabinet, rotate the box’s pieces to make 1753 and take the champagne.
Use it on James’s mouth
Select the champagne and use it on the baby’s mouth while the bottle is still available, before letting William consume it.
Checkpoint: Check the Soothing the Baby entry in the achievement list.
This action is optional. If the bottle has already been used up, continue the story and replay Day 1 Evening · Opening the Reunion after the ending. Do not confuse the repaired broken-bottle arrow, used for William’s cigar box, with a new supply of champagne.
Resolve the crying during the reunion
When James cries during the reunion, perform these interactions in the scene’s order. Continue the current close-up when a click shifts focus to the next object.
Look from James to the moon
Click James’s eyes, then the moon outside, then his body.
Inspect Alexandra’s jewelry and face
Click Alexandra’s ring, the gem in her necklace and her lips.
Finish the outside/face interaction
Click the cloud, then Alexandra’s eyes.
Checkpoint: The baby interruption is resolved and the reunion continues.
William then needs waking. Tug his ear and read where his eye looks: up means tap his hat; right means tap his ear; down means tap his collar. Read the eye again after each reaction and repeat until he is awake; these are a direction-to-object rule, not a fixed three-click order. Continue the living-room task to its night-watch transition. This is neither Aldous’s morning exercise nor William’s Day 2 feather puzzle.