This occurs in Chapter Three, paragraph 16, after the one beginning 'Count Axel's eyes narrowed a fraction.....'
There are three scenarios that I am aware of:
- Count Axel's eyes narrowed a fraction but his smile was lazy, tolerant, good natured. "I see," he murmured after a moment.
The man paused at the table, and took their order, to which ........ - Count Axel's eyes narrowed a fraction but his smile was lazy, tolerant, good natured. "I see," he murmured after a moment.
"You thought that I was distorting facts in order to ........ - Count Axel's eyes narrowed a fraction but his smile was lazy, tolerant, good natured. "I see," he murmured after a moment. "You thought that I was distorting facts in order to ......
No.2 (Count Axel's conversation still split into two paragraphs) is in an amended undated copy of the Universal Book Club edition I have, a Hutchinson reprint marked 75th Thousand, circa '48, a 1954 reprint, and all the Arrow paperback editions.
No.3 (the correct version) appears in the Heron and Lymington Editions.
Can anyone please tell me when the misprint No.1 first occured?