Cirrus@Austlit

Ivy is full of scorn for Sheila, the city girl her younger step-brother invites to the farm. She brought John up and believes a city-bred girl will lead him astray. Ivy meets Sheila's attempts at friendship with hostility, but an accident makes her change her mind.

Two friends meet after not seeing each other for seven years, although they have kept in touch. Margaret Hastilow has remained in the small Mallee town where they both lived, but Lesbia and her husband, John, moved to the city where they have become wealthy. The meeting is awkward and Margaret is about to leave when she spots a small, blue rabbit on the mantelpiece.

The story of an English servant girl who posed as 'Princess Caraboo'. She spoke a strange language no one understood and was taken in by a country magistrate, Samuel Worrall, and his wife. She was eventually exposed as Mary Baker, a cobbler's daughter.