The news that both her sons have been killed causes Lottie to have a breakdown, and the running of Holly’s of Sydney is left to Mrs Mac and Digby Rawlings.

Mat Gore is back in The Castlereagh Line business and comes to the aid of Alison Seager at a time when she needs a good friend.

One of Jack Seager’s enemy’s gets him just where he wants him and for the first time we hear how Jack deals with real fear. However, there’s a twist worth waiting for.

Charles Hamilton has remained in England to court Delia Pond, so his sister Edwina accompanies their mother on The Castlereagh Rose to Sydney. It gives her the perfect opportunity to keep tabs on Jack Seager.

Lottie, meantime, prepares for the opening of Holly’s of Sydney. When she gets a cable from Charles Hamilton that William Holly has left his studies in London, her concern turns to panic and she books a berth on a ship to London which is due to depart only days before the official opening of the new hotel.

Gordon’s disillusionment with the law leads him to terminate his university studies and work for his mother. In doing so his identity is confused with someone else – which lands him in serious trouble.