You'll think that a shameful confession, Mr.Rolfe.' 'My own ideas of Australian geography are vague enough.' 'Oh, but haven't you been there ?' 'Not to any of the new countries; I don't care about them.

A defect, I admit.

The future of England is beyond seas.

I would have children taught all about the Colonies before bothering them with histories of Greece and Rome.

I wish I had gone out there myself as a boy, and grown up a sheep-farmer.' Alma laughed.
'That's one of the things you say just to puzzle people.