Transcriber’s Note
This transcription is based on images digitized from a microform copy made available by the University of California, Davis. These images have been posted on the Internet Archive at:
archive.org/details/OxenfordDayWellSpent
In general, this transcription attempts to retain the formatting, punctuation and spelling of the source text, including variant spellings such as “good by” and “wont” (instead of “won’t”). In a few cases where the quality of the images made a word or a punctuation mark hard to read, the obvious reading was considered the correct reading without comment.
The following changes were made:
- Cover and title page: Changed “Day Well Spent” to “A Day Well Spent.” The original title page gives the title as “Day Well Spent.” On the first page of the text and in the running title throughout, the title is “A Day Well Spent.”
- p. 5: COTTON runs across from R. to L.—Added a closing parenthesis at the end of the stage direction for consistency.
- p. 8: BOLT. Ha, ha, ha! Yes.—(Aside) Dear Steele! She jumps at it.—I’m magnetic steel. (Whisper)—Inserted a period after “Aside” and “Whisper”.
- p. 9: A Room at an Inn—A window open, with balcony, a little to the R. in flat,—A large screen—Deleted the comma after “flat”.
- p. 10: (Whispers) I’ll tell you what we must do, Bobby,—Inserted a period after “Whispers”.
- p. 12: Makes signs to BOLT—slips MISS BROWN’S cloak and bonnet offchair—Changed “offchair” to “off chair”.
- p. 12: I have it, Mr Cotton has a foreman named Bolt—Added a period after “Mr” for consistency.
- p. 18: (Exeunt MISS B. and MRS. S. L. H.)—Inserted a comma after “MRS. S.”