TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g., dovelike/dove-like, night club/night-club, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Add ToC.
Punctuation: fix some quotation mark pairings/nestings, and some missing periods.
[Chapter Two]
Change “little woman now sittinng so close to him” to sitting.
“She had further confesed that now they were really” to confessed.
“a keen appreciation of all that makes civilsed life decorous” to civilised.
[Chapter Eight]
(And yet the fact that she was now a widow would certainly made Roger “tiresome.”) to make.
“come over her a most unexpected sensation of lonelines” to loneliness.
[Chapter Ten]
“you were dismayed by the charge in his appearance” to change.
[Chapter Thirteen]
(He had know “Mr. Roger” from childhood.) to known.
(“I have no legal adviser.” and she looked at him surprised) change the period to a comma.
[Chapter Seventeen]
“those sort of people stop short at murder. believe me” change the period to a comma.
[Chapter Eighteen]
(“There’s a young lady to see you in the drawing-room. ma’am,”) change the period to a comma.
[Chapter Nineteen]
“Mrs. Finch said something which surprised Enid Dent” to Mr.
[Chapter Twenty]
“that these various documents provide sufficent reason for” to sufficient.
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