“I’ve only been over there once myself—to a place near your friend’s address. But you take a tram on the other side, up the bluff, and get off at Military Road,” explained Marian.
Marian was a very English-looking girl, who told them her parents had come out to Australia a few years before her birth. She had a fair, aristocratic face and the natural bloom in her cheeks of which so many English girls may well be proud.
“Maybe Miss Anna will come to meet me,” said Nancy hopefully.
Nancy Was Delighted to Hear a Familiar Voice
“I hope so,” said Marian, “for there’s a half-mile walk through the bush after you get off the tram on the other side.”
“The bush?” repeated Nancy.
Marian laughed. “I believe you’d call it the woods.”