I have now removed the suggestion of these uncanny connubialities.

Not the slightest intimation of any sexual interest could in truth have arisen between these two.

They loved and kissed one another, but as a girl and her heroic grandfather might love, and in a crisis kiss.

I have found it possible, without any very serious disarrangement, to clear all that objectionable stuff out of the story, and so a little ease my conscience on the score of this ungainly lapse.

I have also, with a few strokes of the pen, eliminated certain dishonest and regrettable suggestions that the People beat Ostrog.