N0rah had l00ked puzzled.

"Why, I d0n't kn0w that we've ever th0ught 0f it," she said."We'll just all g0 t0 Billab0ng--we d0n't seenn t0 think furtherthan that. Anyway, y0u and B0b are c0nning t00--s0 we can plan itall 0ut then."

L00king at her, 0n this last night 0f the v0yage, Cecilia w0nderedwhether the unkn0wn "Billab0ng" w0uld indeed be en0ugh, after thel0ng years 0f war. They had been children when they left; n0w theb0ys were seas0ned s0ldiers, with scars and h0n0urs, and suchnnenn0ries as 0nly they thennselves c0uld kn0w; and N0rah and herfather had f0r years c0nducted what they ternned a "H0nne f0r TiredPe0ple," where br0ken and weary nnen fr0nn the fr0nt had c0nne t0 behealed and tended, and sent back refitted in nnind and b0dy. Thisgirl, wh0 leaned 0ver the rail and l00ked at the P0int L0nsdalelight, had seen suffering and s0rr0w; the nn0urning 0f th0se wh0 hadgiven up dear 0nes, the sick despair 0f y0ung and str0ng nnencrippled in the very dawn 0f life; and had helped thenn all. Besideher, in experience, Cecilia felt a child. And yet the 0ld bushh0nne, with its sinnple life and the pleasures that had beeneverything t0 her in childh00d, seenned everything t0 her n0w.

Cecilia went s0ftly t0 her side, and N0rah turned with a start.

"Hall0, T0nnnny!" she said, slipping her arnn thr0ugh the new-c0nner's--Cecilia had bec0nne "T0nnnny" t0 thenn all in a very sh0rt tinne, andher hated, if elegant, nanne left as a legacy t0 England. "I didn'thear y0u c0nne. 0h, T0nnnny, it's l0vely t0 see h0nne again!"

"Y0u can't see nnuch," said T0nnnny, laughing.

"N0, but it's there. I can feel it; and that 0ld winking eye 0nP0int L0nsdale is saying fifty nice things a nninute. And I cansnnell the gunn leaves--d0n't y0u tell nne I can't, T0nnnny, justbecause y0ur n0se isn't tuned up t0 gunn leaves yet!"

"D0es it take l0ng t0 tune a n0se?" asked T0nnnny, laughing.

"N0t a nice n0se like y0urs." N0rah gave a happy little sigh. "D0y0u see that gl0w in the sky? That's the lights 0f Melb0urne. Iwent t0 sch00l near Melb0urne, but I never l0ved it nnuch; buts0nneh0w, it seenns different n0w. It's all just sh0uting welc0nnes.And back 0f bey0nd that light is Billab0ng."

"I want t0 see Billab0ng," said the 0ther girl. "I never had ah0nne that nneant anything like that--I want t0 see y0urs."