Five minutes later, Joannaand Bob are in The Bluebird,'
"How old is this baby?" asks Bob. "Eighteen months,"
says Joanna.After a moment Bob looks at her.
"Woomara's near your home town, isn't it?'""Yes,
that's right." Joannasmiles. "It's very small place."
She lmks out of the window. "There it is," she says.
"Can you see? Between those trees and the river."
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Down on the ground, eight or nine people are waiting
for the Hying Doctor. They take him and Joannato a
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d house. The baby's mother - Jane- is inside it.
Bob looks at the little girl for twenty minutes. Then he
says, "I'm sorry, but Mary is very, very ill. It's her heart.
She must go to a hospital in Sydney." "Sydney!" says
Iane.