When an English firm makes a water-tight cover for a bag or box, it is water-tight; even the waters of Kiley's River had swept over the canvas of Miss Grant's luggage in vain.

And when the sacred boxes were opened, what a treasure-trove was unveiled! The noblest study of mankind is man, but the most fascinating study of womankind is another woman's wardrobe, and the Australian girl found something to marvel at in the quality of the visitor's apparel.
Dainty shoes, tailor-made jackets, fashionable short riding-habits, mannish-looking riding-boots, silk undergarments, beautiful jewellery, all were taken out of their packages and duly admired.

As each successive treasure was produced, Ellen Harriott's eyes grew rounder with astonishment; and when, out of a travelling bag, there appeared a complete dressing-table outfit of silverware--silver-backed hair-brushes, silver manicure set, silver handglass, and so forth--she drew a long breath of wonder and admiration.
It was her first sight of the vanities of the world, the things that she had only dreamed of.

The outfit was not anything extraordinary from an English point of view, but to the bush-bred girl it was a revelation.
"What beautiful things!" she said.

"Now, when you go visiting to a country-house in England, do you always take things like these, all these riding-boots and things ?" "Oh, yes.