[1] The Brisbane Mail said star Elaine Montgomery "gives a sincere portrayal of young sentimentalist confiding hopes and fears to parchment...
Miss Therese Howell, producer, Jhs wisely shifted the centre of interest from the women to the men and there is a latent promise of action moving through the delicately-played love story...This seems to be that long-awaited curipsity — a serial for intelligent listeners.
[4] According to ABC Weekly "It is a love story of Australia in Governor Macquarie’s time, and has a plot in which romance and adventure are cleverly blended.
Based on the diary of a young and beautiful English girl, Hester, daughter of one of England’s landed gentry, the story opens when she is 22.
In the manner of the times she is fearful of spinsterhood, journeys alone to Australia to marry, under Vice-Regal patronage, John Carmichael, a young officer of the 73rd Regiment, in N.S-W.