Immediately her father had visited his solicitor, who had served with him in the Boer War. As soon as he’d read her cable he contacted an eminent King’s Counsel in Melbourne, then he’d phoned the local member of the federal parliament, who was attending to his political duties. The KC and the MP acted at once.
The KC discovered that there were other nursing sisters due to be released from duty at the end of hostilities, but were still serving. It was a couple of days before they had assembled the information and the MP could appraise the Prime Minister. The government had reacted quickly.
The CO placed the file carefully on his desk, lining up the bottom with the lower edge of his desk blotter. ‘I have to telephone the Australian High Commission in London for further orders.’
Lucy pushe
