Transcriber's Notes:
Some of the illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so they correspond to the text, thus the page number of the illustration might no longer matches the page number in the original List of Illustrations.
Repeated chapter titles have been deleted.
On page 20, "Belinda's enthusiasm are" was replaced with "Belinda's enthusiasm is".
On page 21, the quotation mark after "what shall I do?" was deleted.
On page 20, a quotation mark was added after "her next engagement." and another quotation mark was added before "There's the evening study bell".
On page 33, a quotation mark was added after "is simply elegant,".
On page 33, the comma after "earls are English" was replaced with a period.
On page 34, a quotation mark was added after "she's positively mushy."
On page 37, the double quotation mark after "Mr. Satterly" was replaced with a single quotation mark.
On page 50, a quotation mark was added after "beast of a Frenchman.".
On page 56, a quotation mark was added after "if——if I——".
On page 63, "preparatoy" was replaced with "preparatory".
On page 76, "smpathy" was replaced with "sympathy".
On page 89, a quotation mark was added before "Yes; it's a long time".
On page 111, "your poor child" was replaced with "you poor child", and the quotation mark was deleted before "With a little sob".
On page 122, "some one" was replaced with "someone".