AustLit

Station romance. Handsome Englishman Charles Stanley, owner of a Queensland station and heir to an English title, proposes to pretty honest Annie some months after returning from England where his rich and beautiful fiancee ahd refused to marry him because she did not want to live in Australia. Annie's happiness is short-lived. Her wealthy station family's new English governess Carry Benson proves to be Charley's ex-fiancee, reduced to poverty by her father's death. She attracts her old suitor, though ready to leave him for a richer one, and Annie nobly frees him from the engagement. She spends a few months in Melbourne, skillfully creating the illussion she is to marry someone else - he discovers Carry's falseness and Annie's true worth. She returns and despite her siblings' mischievous plots, she and Charley become engaged again. Miss Benson's schemes fail and she eventually marries a Melbourne merchant ... Bright cheery tale of family life. (PB)