She had not yet realised that while the word 'mate' in Australese, like the verb AIMER in French, may be used as a mere colloquial term, it implies in the deeper sense a sanctity of relation upon which hangs the whole code of Bush chivalry.
'Oh, Colin!' Her eyes glistened with tears.

She felt ashamed of her neurotic fancies and her resentment of his lacks in the matter of conventional courtesies--of his outward hardness, his want of sympathy with her ideals.
He came to her, taking her two hands while keeping his pipe in one of his own so that the whiff of the coarse 'Store-cut' tobacco made her wrinkle her nose and stemmed the tide of emotion.

But he did not seem to notice this.
'No, you're not going to put that theory into practice, Mate....

I'm not afraid.

So we'll leave it at that.