:19:04
No, she would've
talked of it to me.
:19:07
She intended
to return home.
:19:09
But this is our home.
:19:12
No, that is not
my mother's signature.
:19:14
Indeed it is.
She signed it in my office.
:19:17
She had it all
calculated...
:19:19
five farms, you see,
at 4,000 acres apiece.
:19:22
- You say all this is mine?
- Held in trust by me.
:19:25
- Until you were of age.
- My mother would not have done that.
:19:29
Dear little girl, with a fortune
such as this, you'll be married in a jiffy.
:19:33
- But why was I not told this?
- I would have told you today,
after your mother's funeral.
:19:37
- If you had not run away.
- No, I... I'm staying here.
:19:41
You... You cannot. Your new home is
with Mrs. Ahearn and myself in Parramatta.
:19:45
Yes, you will go
to Mrs. Cousin's School for Young Ladies.
:19:48
No! No!
:19:50
Oh, dear.
:19:56
- Come, come, girlie.
- Do not touch me!
:20:00
You will be rich
one day.
:20:03
That is not the point.
:20:07
Not the point.
:20:19
Lucinda had never been on a boat.
:20:22
She had never been
to Sydney.
:20:25
She carried with her a bank draft
for her entire fortune...
:20:29
as well as an itchy impatience to grasp
what her mother had called...
:20:33
the working world.
:20:39
When Lucinda exploded her present
of the Prince Rupert's drop...
:20:43
it was not something
she easily forgot.
:20:47
She knew that glass
is a thing in disguise...
:20:49
is not solid at all,
but a liquid.
:20:52
And even while it is as frail as the ice
on a Parramatta puddle...
:20:56
it is stronger
than Sydney sandstone.