He grinned. “I won’t go quicker than you want to.”
“I want to have them, too.” She pulled his head down to her and kissed him. “But that means I’ll only have six months for business after we get married, and then I’ll have to begin thinking of other things. Joe, when do you start mustering?”
“After the wet,” he said. “It was March this year because of the late season, but normally we’d start mustering about the middle of February.”
“How long does the muster go on for?”
“About three weeks or a month. After that there’s the branding of the calves, and driving the stock down to Julia Creek.”
“Could we get married after the mustering, Joe? Say early in April?”
“Of course.”
She said thoughtfully, “That would mean that I’d have nearly a year from now, to get it to the stage when I could l
