Their romance is interrupted when Harold abruptly loses his fortune. Sybylla is horrified by her unwomanly behavior, but Harold forgives her, and the two begin a secret engagement. When Harold leans in to kiss her, however, she panics and strikes him with a whip. Sybylla and Harold’s relationship develops, and eventually he asks her to marry him. Bossier find a compromise, and agree that Sybylla may visit Sydney with Everard the following year. Bossier insists that such a career would be unladylike and improper. Sybylla, who loves to perform, is taken with the idea, but Mrs. Bossier’s adopted son, and when he visits for Christmas, he encourages Sybylla to take up a career on the stage. Harold Beecham owns the neighboring estate, and he and Sybylla quickly begin a playful, teasing courtship. While at Caddagat, Sybylla meets two young men: Harold Beecham and Everard Grey. Also residing at Caddagat is the laborer Frank Hawden, who makes several advances on Sybylla despite her repeated rejections. Sybylla eagerly leaves Possum Gully and falls in love with life at Caddagat, where she lives with her grandmother, her Aunt Helen, and her Uncle Julius. Bossier promises to refine Sybylla into a proper lady and prepare her for marriage. Bossier, the older woman offers to take Sybylla in at the Bossier estate. Sybylla gets in frequent disagreements with her mother, and when Mrs.
The labor is hard and unrewarding, and Sybylla longs for the chance to make something of herself. He fails, and the family turns to dairy farming to make a living. Though Sybylla starts life wealthy, her father moves the Melvyns to a ranch on Possum Gully in an attempt to make a career trading stocks.
In late 19th-century Australia, Sybylla Melvyn comes of age while her family undergoes serious financial struggles.
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