As a matter of fact, he was making the most of his chances, and before long they were getting on capitally.

Mary found herself laying aside her slow English way, and laughing and joking with the rest.

There is something intoxicating in moonlight at any time; and what with the moon and the climate, and the breeze whistling through the gum-boughs, it was no wonder that even the staidly-reared English girl felt a thrill of excitement, a stirring of the primeval instincts that civilization and cultivation had not quite been able to choke.
"When you go back to England, Miss Grant," said Blake, "you will be able to tell them that you have hunted 'possums, anyhow.

That will sound like the real bush, won't it ?" "Yes.

And I can say I have been upset in a river and nearly drowned, too.