They came ashore in a lifeboat, bought new equipment and went on by the next ship. The ship in which Austin with his family now embarked also ran into a storm and Lady Langton thought that she was going to be wrecked a second time. It is a curious if irrelevant fact that nearly every outward voyage was stormy and difficult, and nearly everyone back serene. As if to compensate this their years in Australia seem to have been less complicated, and freer from unexpected misfortunes than those in England. Alice was glad to be back in Australia. She did feel that the large light landscape was her natural element, and that the gum trees were more friendly than the winter oaks. But she felt defrauded. She had actually been, if not defrauded, deprived of more than half her income by the Draxes. This was only a partial cause of her feeling. Another perhaps was Sir William’s refusal of a baronetcy, but the chief cause was that she had endured these two long sea voyages and had seen practically nothing of Europe.
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