Transcriber’s Notes:
Punctuation has been made consistent.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
The following changes were made:
[p. 35]: Missing letter assumed to be C (Even Madame Da-Caret, the)
[p. 114]: second changed to third (her third marriage)
[p. 216]: In changed to I’ll (cruel. I’ll dismiss)
[p. 247]: Dobson’s changed to Hobson’s (was “Hobson’s choice)