Odd number of quotation marks

[walshbr]

The algorithm searching for quotes relies on the assumption that Woolf does, in fact, always close her quotations. But I just noticed at least one instance where she doesn't. This is why Night and Day is coming in with a crazy high percentage of text in quotes - after this moment it would invert the count. Anything not-quoted would suddenly count as quoted. Closing that quote brings the percentage quoted for that text down to 24% from 70%.

Maybe introduce a test that throws an error if a text contains an odd number of quotations? Seems like there's no real cure for this other than having the computer flagging it and then making a editorial decision about where the quote would go. Statistically the change would be insignificant, but the editor in me shudders.

"Oh dear me, no. I should never think of telling Katharine the truth
about herself. That wouldn't do at all. One has to be in an attitude of
adoration in order to get on with Katharine.

"Now I've learnt that she's refused to marry him why don't I go home?"
Denham thought to himself. But he went on walking beside Rodney, and for
a time they did not speak, though Rodney hummed snatches of a tune out
of an opera by Mozart. A feeling of contempt and liking combine
very naturally in the mind of one to whom another has just spoken
unpremeditatedly, revealing rather more of his private feelings than he
intended to reveal. Denham began to wonder what sort of person Rodney
was, and at the same time Rodney began to think about Denham.