He did not know the country at the head of the gully, where he concluded that Wombo was hiding, and lost himself in the gidia scrub.

Thus, he was in a very disagreeable temper, when he at last arrived at the Bachelors' Quarters.
To Lady Bridget the day passed, and all the seemingly distant noises of it, like a phantasmagoria of vision, sound, impressions--the echoes of station activity; the Chinamen's pidgin English as they weeded the front garden; Tommy Hensor's voice when he brought the cook a nestful of eggs some vagrant hen had laid in the grass-tussocks, the men going forth with the tailing-mob--and at intervals the scorching recollection of that hinted scandal concerning Colin and Mrs Hensor of which Maule had told her....

Horrible...

unbelievable...

and yet....
Then, after a long while, with lucid breaks in the dreamy stupor, she heard the roar of Ninnis' incoming mob of wild cattle from the range.
She could even wonder whether he had been able to muster that herd of five hundred or so for the sale-yards.