South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption.

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

I look back to a happy childhood.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.