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Originally Posted by issybird
I thought there was a disconnect between the Colonel as time machine and Mrs. Bentley whose memories were discredited. My explanation is that the Colonel was remembering great events while Mrs. Bentley only held onto personal history...
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Wasn't it a completely different group of kids? It was Doug and a couple of boys his age for the time machine but it was Tom and a couple of girls with Mrs. Bentley, right? I don't remember the girls' ages (if they were ever stated) but were they younger than Doug too? I know Tom was 10.
Either way, to me this was a case of them believing that the Colonel had a history
as an adult but the girls not believing that Mrs. Bentley could have been a child. Believing that an adult could have done things is one thing, believing that an adult used to be a child was just too much.