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come from the twenty-first century. She settled on a video of Alex playing with one of Aunt Joanna’s cats in the garden at Applecott House. It didn’t look particularly futuristic to Alex, but Dora and Henry were impressed.
“It’s like a Picture Palace in your pocket!” said Henry.
“But it’s colour,” said Dora. “It’s better than the Picture Palace. And that’s the garden here – isn’t it? But everything’s different. And you’re different too. You smell different. And Ruby’s a girl’s name. You are a girl, aren’t you? Do all girls wear trousers where you come from?”
“Who cares about trousers?” said Henry. “Do you all have time machines? Do people have
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