TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Florence Warden was the pseudonym of Florence Alice (Price) James.
The Ward & Downey edition (3 vol., London, 1887) was referenced for most of the changes listed below.
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. armchair/arm-chair, lattice-work/lattice work, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Punctuation: missing periods, quotation mark pairings/nestings, etc.
Italicize two incidents of “fiacre” to maintain consistency.
[Chapter VI]
Change “At last a board creeked in the hall outside” to creaked.
[Chapter VII]
“of which her vegetabe nature… began to describle to her visitor” to vegetable and describe, respectively.
[Chapter X]
“Miss Nouna Weston to our office a quickly as possible on receipt” to as.
[Chapter XI]
“and was familar with every phase of fast life” to familiar.
[Chapter XII]
“pang of yearning towards the sincere and oteadfast old friend” to steadfast.
[Chapter XIV]
“at last she scarcely gave more, …, then an occasional nod” to than.
(“You came here this morniug to see your husband drill?”) to morning.
[Chapter XV]
“little tyrant that ever capitivated a man’s senses and wormed” captivated.
[Chapter XVI]
“and certainly done his utmost to persuade him to aecept it” to accept.
[Chapter XVII]
“and the swarthy white robed Sundran, walking with noiseless” to white-robed.
[Chapter XXI]
“first direction and then set about carrving out the second” to carrying.
[Chapter XXII]
“rattled on Dicky, encourged by George’s lenity” to encouraged.
[Chapter XXIII]
“Even the highflown speech was like Nouna in her serious” to high-flown.
“keep her from having her life ruined by any man’s pig headedness” to pig-headedness.
[Chapter XXVI]
(“That if I would call in—some dy—bay myself—he would show) to day—by.
“one of the widows was burst open with a crash” to windows.
[Chapter XXVII]
“quick turn of every head to the left, and and hoarse cry” delete one and.
“by the time he got inside the gate way of the house” to gate-way.
[Chapter XXVIII]
“Chloris shrugged his shoulders, but she was impressed” to her.
[Chapter XXX]
“To his surprise, the Oriental seem quite relieved to find that” to seemed.
[End of text]