She would be lying if she said that she wasn't scared. Those first days of the planning and the voyage she was confident in her fierce pride that she was doing this, that after all the others who had called the idea mad it was she who was going to China, but doubts crept inevitably in, during the long days at sea, and now she is surrounded by the people and the business and the madness of a completely alien land and she is, if entirely honest, terrified.
And then - in the corner of her eye, but it stops her dead - a man walks past wearing a battered, ribbon-tied top hat, and Alice stares for a moment; and then she gathers her thoughts and steps forward, walking out with confidence under a butterfly-blue sky.
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And then - in the corner of her eye, but it stops her dead - a man walks past wearing a battered, ribbon-tied top hat, and Alice stares for a moment; and then she gathers her thoughts and steps forward, walking out with confidence under a butterfly-blue sky.
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