AustLit

Arthur Blinken tries to persuade the mission school teacher, Kittie Goldie, to go riding with him in his motor car, but she refuses because she is taking the children on a picnic. She also believes he is interested in another girl. But Arthur finds a way of spending the day with her and a misunderstanding is cleared up.

Marion has become obsessed by the pronouncements of a man she calls the Master and has rejected her husband, Chris. But when she sees her husband playing golf with a wealthy young widow she loses belief in the Master's teachings.

Tells the story of Edward de Lacey Evans who worked in the Bendigo mines as a man and married three times.