“Off to play golf, darling,” she said. “Is that not grand? Au reservoir.”
Diva had not missed seeing the snowdrops in the Major’s button-hole, and stood stupefied for a moment at this news. Then she caught sight of Evie, and shot across the street to communicate her suspicions. Quaint Irene joined then and the Padre.
“Snowdrops, i’fegs!” said he…
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Transcriber’s Notes and Errata
The following words were found in both hyphenated and unhyphenated form in the text. The number of instances of each is given in parentheses.
| Hyphenated | Unhyphenated |
| book-case (4) | bookcase (1) |
| dress-maker’s (1) | dress-maker’s (1) |
| dress-maker (1) | dress-maker (1) |
| eye-glass (4) | eyeglass (4) |
| parlour-maid (3) | parlourmaid (5) |
| tea-gown (9) | teagown (2) |
| tip-toed (1) | tiptoed (2) |
| tortoise-shell (3) | tortoiseshell (1) |
The following typographical errors were corrected: