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"
I
wish
I
could
myself
,
"
Meggie
sighed
.
"
I
do
n't
,
"
said
her
daughter
smugly
.
"
I
like
having
Dane
all
to
myself
.
So
do
n't
worry
.
I
wo
n't
let
anything
happen
to
him
.
"
Meggie
did
n't
find
the
reassurance
a
comfort
,
though
it
was
reassuring
.
This
precocious
little
scrap
was
going
to
steal
her
son
from
her
,
and
there
was
no
way
she
could
avert
it
.
Back
to
the
paddocks
,
while
Justine
staunchly
guarded
Dane
.
Ousted
by
her
own
daughter
,
who
was
a
monster
.
Who
on
earth
did
she
take
after
?
Not
Luke
,
not
herself
,
not
Fee
.
At
least
these
days
she
was
smiling
and
laughing
.
She
was
four
years
old
before
she
saw
anything
funny
in
anything
,
and
that
she
ever
did
was
probably
due
to
Dane
,
who
had
laughed
from
babyhood
.
Because
he
laughed
,
so
did
she
.
Meggie
's
children
learned
from
each
other
all
the
time
.
But
it
was
galling
,
knowing
they
could
get
on
without
their
mother
very
well
.
By
the
time
this
wretched
conflict
is
over
,
Meggie
thought
,
he
'll
be
too
old
to
feel
what
he
should
for
me
.
He
's
always
going
to
be
closer
to
Justine
.
Why
is
it
that
every
time
I
think
I
've
got
my
life
under
control
,
something
happens
?
I
did
n't
ask
for
this
war
or
this
drought
,
but
I
've
got
them
.
*
*
*
Perhaps
it
was
as
well
Drogheda
was
having
such
a
hard
time
of
it
.
If
things
had
been
easier
,
Jack
and
Hughie
would
have
been
off
to
enlist
in
a
second
.
As
it
was
,
they
had
no
choice
but
to
buckle
down
and
salvage
what
they
could
out
of
the
drought
which
would
come
to
be
called
the
Great
Drought
.
Over
a
million
square
miles
of
crop
-
and
stock-bearing
land
was
affected
,
from
southern
Victoria
to
the
waist-high
Mitchell
grasslands
of
the
Northern
Territory
.
But
the
war
rivaled
the
drought
for
attention
.
With
the
twins
in
North
Africa
,
the
homestead
people
followed
that
campaign
with
painful
eagerness
as
it
pushed
and
pulled
back
and
forth
across
Libya
.
Their
heritage
was
working
class
,
so
they
were
ardent
Labor
supporters
and
loathed
the
present
government
,
Liberal
by
name
but
conservative
by
nature
.
When
in
August
of
1941
Robert
Gordon
Menzies
stepped
down
,
admitting
he
could
n't
govern
,
they
were
jubilant
,
and
when
on
October
3rd
the
Labor
leader
John
Curtin
was
asked
to
form
a
government
,
it
was
the
best
news
Drogheda
had
heard
in
years
.
All
through
1940
and
1941
unease
about
Japan
had
been
growing
,
especially
after
Roosevelt
and
Churchill
cut
off
her
petroleum
supplies
.
Europe
was
a
long
way
away
and
Hitler
would
have
to
march
his
armies
twelve
thousand
miles
in
order
to
invade
Australia
,
but
Japan
was
Asia
,
part
of
the
Yellow
Peril
poised
like
a
descending
pendulum
above
Australia
's
rich
,
empty
,
underpopulated
pit
.
So
no
one
in
Australia
was
at
all
surprised
when
the
Japanese
attacked
Pearl
Harbor
;
they
had
simply
been
waiting
for
it
to
come
,
somewhere
.
Suddenly
the
war
was
very
close
,
and
might
even
become
their
own
backyard
.
There
were
no
great
oceans
separating
Australia
from
Japan
,
only
big
islands
and
little
seas
.
