Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. clearcut/clear-cut,
smoking-room/smoking room, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Formatting: abandon the use of drop-caps.
Punctuation: fix some quotation mark pairings/nestings.
Add ToC.
Change five instances of _Alymer_ to _Aylmer_.
[Chapter Two]
Change “she had one accomplishment; she was a _spendid_ dancer” to
_splendid_.
[Chapter Three]
“He felt it would have have been a serious reflection” delete one
_have_.
“He’s neither one thing nor the other neither a ladies’ man nor a
man’s man.” add a comma after _other_.
[Chapter Five]
“very _plaintly_ had hinted that she was not indifferent to him” to
_plainly_.
[Chapter Six]
“when he had suggested the _Berkley_ or the Savoy” to _Berkeley_.
[Chapter Seven]
“One shuts _onself_ up like a recluse, excludes commonplace persons”
to _oneself_.
[Chapter Nine]
“with the one exception of the ungenial _Martin_” to _Martyn_.
[Chapter Ten]
(“No he had not taken her into his confidence.) add a comma after
_No_.
[Chapter Twelve]
(through the swinging doors “Our quick-change artist is going) add a
comma after _doors_.
[Chapter Fourteen]
“the clue was _to_ slight to be of any use” to _too_.
[Chapter Eighteen]
“A third party would remove the _awkardness_ inseparable from the” to
_awkwardness_.
(“Hush! I hear his _footstep_ coming down the staircase.) to
_footsteps_.
[Chapter Twenty]
“my friends would say of me that I’m a pretty ‘_cute_ one’" to
_’cute_.
“The finger-prints on the tumbler _co-incided_ in every detail” to
_coincided_.
[Chapter Twenty-One]
(“When I do, you will not have to complain of my lack candor.”)
add _of_ after _lack_.
“I had hoped to escape them _altogther_, but I had mistimed” to
_altogether_.
[End of text]