Postscipt

A postscript to a well-known novel

‘Is this a dream or a nightmare? I am old and in an asylum where everyone, other than me, is mad. I want to get back to the real world. Will you show me the way?’

‘I would, but when I asked you before where you wanted to get to, you told me you didn’t much care.’

‘I was being childish then but I do care now. I hate being lost in this fantasyland. I want to be my proper age and back with you in a world nobody here will believe exists.’

‘And how would you prove it does?’

‘I would show them you.’

‘No chance,’ said the Cat, and vanished.

The doctor was at the bedside when Alice’s sister arrived. ‘No change,’ he said, ‘but I doubt if there will be, not after all these years. She still believes we are all mad and must be delusions.’