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Infuriated with his unreliable car, John Brett tells his daughter, June, that she can have it if she can get it started. Simmons, who sold the car to her father, helps her and after he has explained its idiosyncrasies, she drives it home. June is determined not to marry a bully like her father and the car gives her a perfect way to test her suitors.
The reviewer criticises the poet's tendency to slide from 'a higher plane ... to bathos' and quotes from her poem commemorating the 1926 Black Sunday bushfires in Victoria.