While she is sleeping Adam and Lydia search through the contents of her purse, hoping to discover some clue of who their mysterious and strangely dressed guest is. Instead what they find is more fantastic than anything they could have imagined. Photos, magazines, cosmetics and all the usual mundane contents of a woman of the 90's handbag. Before Maggie has even recovered consciousness Adam is certain that she is from the future. Admittedly he has more than enough evidence before his eyes, but even so he takes this piece of news remarkably calmly and well.
Some heros can travel to the future, return to the past and still refuse to believe their eyes.
Adam's remarkable reaction to time travel has quickly made him one of my favourite heros of this genre. When Maggie awakens in the past she soon, with the help of Adam and Lydia, accepts that she is in Regency England. When she was in the future the month of the year had been May, now she finds herself in April. Therefore Maggie is certain that when she reaches the date of the year that she left 1995 the carriage will return for her and take her back to the future. So Maggie finds herself with a month to stir up trouble in Regency London with the help of the mischievous Lydia, who sees the arrival of Maggie as the perfect solution to distract her brother from his threats to send her to the country.