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Updated: June 16, 2025
It had been an immense honour when Mr Gibbs had chosen Joan Gildea from amongst his staff for a roving commission to report upon the political, financial, economic and social aspects of Australia, and upon Imperial interests generally, as represented in various sideshows on her route.
Her face was a little poked forward a small oval face, pale except for the redness of a rather thin-lipped mouth the upper lip like a scarlet bow and the brilliance of the eyes, deep-set under finely-drawn brows and with thick lashes, golden-brown, and curling up at the tips. Peculiar eyes: Mrs Gildea, who knew them well, never could decide their exact colour.
Was Lady Tallant really cross? and had Vereker Wells made any more blunders? and so forth. But she did not enlighten Mrs Gildea much about her doings with Colin McKeith, and presently said she must go and make her peace with Rosamond. McKeith accompanied her naturally, since he had to row her back to the Government House landing.
She laughed hysterically. 'What a pity Joan Gildea isn't here! she said. 'Think of the "copy" she might have made out of this! Lady Tallant had conceived the original idea of having the wedding breakfast on the deck of the Government yacht, while it steamed down the forty miles between Leichardt's Town and the river bar, beyond which, in those days, large vessels could not pass.
There seemed something a little comic in the notion of Bridget O'Hara living in the Eternal, and yet Mrs Gildea realised that there really was a certain stable quality underneath the flashing, ever changing temperamental sheath, which might perhaps form a base for the Verities to rest upon. 'Beelzebub didn't teach you that, she said. 'No, quite the contrary.
Two bamboos, guarding the side entrance gate, made a soft whispering that heightened the dream-sense. The bottom of the garden looked an inchoate mass of greenery topped by the upper boughs of tall straggling gum trees, growing outside where the ground fell gradually to the river. From where Mrs Gildea sat, she had a view of almost the whole reach of the river where it circles Emu Point.
And if I did perhaps I could make money enough to keep me out here for a year or two travelling about. Joan Gildea looked up in a startled way from the drawing she had been studying, and asked with some eagerness: 'Biddy, do you really mean that you are thinking of stopping out here for a year or two? 'I do. I want to shake myself free from the old clogs.
And as to my falling in love with a figment of my own imagination' he spat the words out savagely 'we'll see how far your remark is justified when She does come out and I recognise her as I am convinced I shall do directly I set eyes on Her. Mrs Gildea burst into rather hysterical laughter, which manifestly offended Colin McKeith. 'We'll drop the subject, please, he said stiffly.
Molly Gaverick was an uncertain correspondent, and, no doubt, Joan Gildea and Rosamond Tallant, if they had known of the event, had thought it wiser, in writing to her, to suppress the news. For a moment, Lady Bridget sat meditating, and all the blood seemed to rush from her brain to her heart she could almost hear her heart pounding. Then she went on again with Lady Gaverick's letter.
Or if Joan Gildea had ever played the part of Rachel in Colin McKeith's sentimental dreams, those boyish dreams had left no serious mark upon him. He had gone north to a newly-formed station and had there out-bushed the bushman in his knowledge of the idiosyncrasies of cattle and sheep and his amazing faculty for spotting country suitable for either.
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