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A year passed: Darcy was still at Burrabinga. Robert and Margaret were unaware of the quality of his and Clare's affections. The others were engrossed in their own affairs. Their life was lively with bouts of hard work interspersed with picnics or attendance at the agricultural shows or charity bazaars in the surrounding townships. Clare Margaret was left more and more to superintend the homestead. On her depended the regulation of supplies, the sowing of vegetables, the harvesting of the orchard.
Mavis married. The third daughter, Vida, announced her engagement. Mavis's husband was the son of a barrister, and following his father in the law. Vida's affianced was supposed to have wrecked his health in the war, but his father was able to give him a liberal allowance, and his idleness was envied.