That Hideous Strength - typo?

I'm confused by a sentence in _That Hideous Strength_. It's in Chapter
3, section 4, the second sentence. That's page 68 in my edition, but
that may vary. It speaks of Mark Studdock being cheerful for the
following two reasons. (I'll highlight the potential typo):

"This was partly due to a whisky and soda taken with 'Fairy' Hardcastle
immediately before and partly to the fact that by a glance at the
mirror he saw that he could NOT remove the objectionable piece of
cotton wool from his lip."

I'm thinking that "not" should be a "now." Mark cut himself shaving and
was unhappy because he had to meet a new, important person while having
a bit of cotton wool stuck on his upper lip. He wouldn't be cheerful to
discover it had to remain a little longer.

Check your edition if you have one handy and tell me whether yours says
"not" or "now."

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> partly to the fact that by a glance at the mirror he saw that he could
> NOT remove the objectionable piece of cotton wool from his lip."

It's "now" in both english editions i have (and the german translation agrees)

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"I'm working on it."

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