Believing that Australia wasn’t going to offer the opportunities hoped for, Mary and her sister decided to return to England.
This is where fate intervened. The voyage home crossed the Great Australian Bight, but Daisy experienced such severe seasickness that, on the doctor’s advice, they were instructed to disembark in Fremantle, their intended docking location, so Daisy could recover. Once again Mary and Daisy found work as barmaids, first at the Hotel Metropole and later at the Central Hotel. These positions included accommodation and gave Mary the means to easily add to her savings.
The promising opportunities that Perth offered soon meant that the return journey to England was abandoned.

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