6/38 An occasional passage is scored out and some words and phrases are crossed out to make way for a revision. Following page 216, four sheets containing the conclusion of the story are cut out of the notebook. They appear, the pages numbered 217 to 223, among the Shelley-Rolls fragments. A revised version, pages 217 to 226, follows the cut.[iv] The mode of telling the story in the final draft differs radically from that in the rough draft. In _The Fields of Fancy_ Mathilda's history is set in a fanciful framework. |