Explore "All That Swagger" by Miles Franklin on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
The Delacy men were helpless without women--respectable women. Other grades were unknown to any of them but Robert.
Danny and William were as the abandoned on an island. William recognized that life had stopped until he could bring a woman to Bewuck. Jean Urquhart was reaching the no-man's-land of spinsterhood, and deserved to be rescued. The property that would later be hers was a bait to him, while Danny was overjoyed to have an Urquhart.