Talk:The Rope Trick (novel)/@comment-142.129.215.72-20131023001926/@comment-2031194-20131204234019

By the context in the story, it seems most likely some time in the 1800s. Although this story, like most of Alexander's, takes place in a fictional world, so that would make the time factor even harder to determine, as the timeline/history of that world might be totally different from ours.