A poster in Alice's Shop quotes a Caroll poem, The Dream of Fame: "That perfect face, whose
smile to own." The poem itself is eerily similar to
David's story, in that it concerns him meeting a woman, who he loses, who becomes a stranger, whom only the children from their play would care to speak, sees etharal appearances of her, and never notices Laura's message "Imposter," due to him going to London tp find the Daedelus Club.