The explanation must be that Mary was hurrying to finish the revision (quite drastic on these final pages) and the transcription of her story before her confinement, and that in her haste she copied the pages from _F of F--B_ as they stood.

Then, realizing that they did not fit _Mathilda_, she began to revise them; but to keep her MS neat, she cut out these pages and wrote the fair copy.

There is no break in _Mathilda_ in story or in pagination.

This fair copy also shows signs of haste: slips of the pen, repetition of words, a number of unimportant revisions.
[84] Here in _F of F--B_ there is an index number which evidently points to a note at the bottom of the next page.

The note is omitted in _Mathilda_.