Transcriber's note
Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. The following Printer errors have been changed:
| CHANGED | FROM | TO |
| Page [2]: | “by-and-bye” | “by-and-by” |
| Page [21]: | “dinner-time” | “dinner time” |
| Page [21]: | “half-an-hour” | “half an hour” |
| Page [40] | “unbrella” | “umbrella” |
| Page [47]: | “anyone of the other” | “any one of the other” |
| Page [49]: | “spend-thrift” | “spendthrift” |
| Page [56]: | “Well, really, father” | “Well, really, Father” |
| Page [57]: | “liason” | “liaison” |
| Page [61]: | “six thirty” | “six-thirty” |
| Page [67]: | “promise not see” | “promise not to see” |
| Page [78]: | “prententions” | “pretensions” |
| Page [80]: | “Brunnel” | “Brunell” |
| Page [95]: | “think off” | “think of” |
| Page [111]: | “Your’s” | “Yours” |
| Page [132]: | “remains of breakfast was” | “remains of the breakfast were” |
| Page [138]: | “paralysed us us” | “paralysed us” |
| Page [155]: | “half-an-hour” | “half an hour” |
| Page [161]: | “he begun” | “he began” |
| Page [169]: | “out of her’s” | “out of hers” |
| Page [202]: | “chosing his words” | “choosing his words” |
| Page [210]: | “ividly white” | “vividly white” |
| Page [210]: | “s probably something” | “is probably something” |
| Page [227]: | “if the effect” | “If the effect” |
| Page [228]: | “Proctor” | “Procter” |
| Page [232]: | “Proctor” | “Procter” |
| Page [238]: | “of hs” | “of his” |
All other inconsistencies are as in the original.