What is real and what is not? Can you tell me or I you? Perhaps we shall never know more than this — that to think a thing is to make it true. - P. L. Travers

All right, indeed! That was hardly the word. All right, in her blue jacket with the silver buttons! All right with her gold locket round her neck! All right with the parrot-headed umbrella under her arm!

There was something strange and extraordinary about her – something that was frightening and at the same time most exciting.

Mary Poppins sighed with pleasure, however, when she saw three of herself, each wearing a blue coat with silver buttons and a blue hat to match. She thought it was such a lovely sight that she wished there had been a dozen of her or even thirty. The more Mary Poppins the better.