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At the time of his marriage to Susan Angus, Donald Urquhart removed to the Riverine. Tom Angus was tea-planting in India. George and Janet held Birrabee. Ned and Della were at Homehurst, where Danny's garden flourished free from weeds and pests. All were behaving in a way becoming to an empty continent where population was in demand.
Johanna was impatient for Robert's son, and to ensure his safe passage, all the voluntary man power available in addition to what the Delacys could afford, worked in a bee cutting a gradient around the most dizzying pinch so that Margaret could come out by vehicle.