Transcriber Note:
Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of the speakers. Those words were retained as-is.
On page 27, a quotation mark was added after "And are you going down for good next week?".
On page 121, the period after "after gulping the water" was replaced with a comma.
On page 151, "it may he" was replaced with "it may be".
On page 172, the "care of" symbol was replaced with "c/o".
On page 252, the closing parenthesis was moved from the end of "smiling disarmingly." to the end of "you see".
On page 256, the "He" in "He appeared to be choosing" was changed to "He".
On page 270, "Mr Gaymer" was replaced with "Mr. Gaymer".
On page 315, "sitsing" was replaced with "sitting".